The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0292

The next morning after the event, I went with Nicholas to speak with Julian. He was in a sitting room, sipping coffee while reading through a newspaper. Terry’s face was plastered all over the front page, under the headline: Traitor.

It still didn’t seem real. I expected him to pop out from any corner.

Though perhaps Terry wasn’t the one to be afraid of anymore. After all, Jane was the one who had sent that knife flying for my face. I shuddered to think what might have happened if Nicholas hadn’t been there with me.

“Julian, we need to talk,” Nicholas said as we approached Julian at his small round table.

Julian motioned toward the two other chairs at his table. “Coffee?”

Nicholas and I glanced at each other, then sat down. A pair of ser vants immediately delivered two cups of coffee for us. Julian nudged the bowl of sugar closer to us.

“You’ll feel better after some caffeine,” Julian said.

“Forget coffee,” Nicholas said. Things were tense between Julian and Nicholas. While Nicholas glared openly at Julian, Julian avoided looking back at him. “How did you know about the tattoo?”

was being too demanding to properly earn answers from Julian. For knowing Julian his whole life, I wasn’t sure how he couldn’t realize by now that kindness earned more favors from Julian than spewing orders ever

I said, much softer and friendlier than Nicholas. “Why didn’t you mention the tattoos before? We

recently learned about it. We knew the symbol of the upside-down wolf skull was tied to the underground organization, but I had no idea they branded themselves…

whom?”

asked, more gently,

the new weight distribution. “I have a new informant. An ex-member of the underground.

“Who?” Nicholas asked.

toward me. They worked directly with magic, Piper. They understand

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fell open.

the very least, they will know where

to me felt like such

at least know if returning my

meet this informant,” Nicholas

that makes them invaluable to our investigation,