The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0284

Julian was angry, that much was clear, though I couldn’t exactly fathom why. Yes, it would be irritating to be excluded from Nichola s’s confrontation of the King and Queen, but Julian usually handled irritation with cutting humor and sarcasm, not outright anger.

“Your presence wouldn’t have made any difference,” Nicholas said.

“Oh? You don’t think the person who has been investigating the underground organization. wouldn’t have had evidence and knowledge to help your case?” Julian scoffed.

Nicholas sighed. He ran a hand over the back of his neck. “It wasn’t personal, Julian.”

“Like hell, it wasn’t. I was the one who helped find the evidence, and I even have some of my own. You should have looped me into your plans. Aren’t we a trio in this? When did you decide that you’d rather do everything alone?”

Nicholas shook his head.

I didn’t necessarily want to take a side here. I could see the situation from both angles. But the fact was Nicholas hadn’t told me his plans either. He simply left me before I had woken up. He’d apologized, I was no longer hurt. But I could understand Julian’s upset.

Still, I decided to stay out of their conversation, mostly because it felt deeper than this one. singular argument. This issue may have been the one that finally brought them into an open. conflict, but underneath the surface, this resentment had likely been festering for a long time.

“Admit it,” Julian said, a sharp edge in his voice. “You purposefully excluded me. You genuinely do not believe that I am capable.”

Nicholas crossed his arms. He didn’t deny it.

“Nicholas…” I whispered, feeling pity for them both.

“You’re such an as shole,” Julian said.

“You may be capable, Julian, when you want to be, but you aren’t reliable. You have been a foolhardy play boy since our youth,” Nicholas said. “You may be doing the right thing right now, but I can’t trust you to always make the best choices.”

“You think I would have, what, stood in front of our father and then sided with Terry?”

“I don’t know what you would have done,” Nicholas said. “You are unpredictable. Your whims are fleeting. You do whatever you want without worry of the consequence.”

you don’t know me at all, brother. You think I’m

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it

Because that’s what

some of the harsher things he’d said, or at least clarify

kept his mouth firmly

were that I wasn’t privileged to. These two had a lifetime of history, memories upon memories where

Julian was such a cad, something terrible must have happened to implant that conception

said, snorting. “He’ll never see me as anything but

head to me in

had gone. “There’s no need to

being honest, Piper,” Nicholas said, voice flat, void of emotion. “He

between the two brothers, or

agree,” he

for two

unhealthy is to pretend everything is fine between him and me. My expectations of him are all the way down on the floor and he

his jaw. There seemed to be no peaceful end of this conflict, so for

of the things that went wrong between them, I could make another, better effort to help push them to

now, perhaps the best course of action, was simply to

was walking back toward the room when I was stopped

to speak with

not wait for a response. He just turned and began walking.

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through, Nathan stepped outside

small couch. His back was turned toward the room

moved into the center of

to speak with you, Piper,”