The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

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Chapter 0326

“Okay,” I said. “Um, so how do we trap Jane?” I looked at Julian. He’s typically the master of schemes. I expected him to have a few up his sleeves.

Right now, however, he seemed a bit blank. He shook his head, as if to recover. “We just need to lure her in… if we could… prepare a closet to trap her…”

“A closet?” I ask.

“Something to…” He rubbed his forehead. “Something, confining.”

“She likely has back ways out of every room in the palace, closets included,” Nicholas said. It wouldn’t surprise me.”

“What if we jump out behind her and put a sack over her?” I asked.

Julian, Veronica, and Nicolas all looked at me.

I blinked. “What?”

Julian rubbed his temples next.

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It was only after a few moments that I realized the many, various flaws with the plan I announced so confidentially. A few moments more and I started to feel how achy my joints were and how heavy my eyelids were.

The adrenaline of the day was wearing off, and my body was worn.

“We should break for the night,” Veronica said. “You’ve all had an exhausting day. We should return to this with fresh minds.”

Julian, Nicholas, and I glanced at each other. In them, I could see the exhaustion that I felt. No doubt, they saw the same in me.

“That’s probably a good idea,” Julian said.

“I

agree,

“Nicholas replied.

“Yeah.” I was reluctant to admit it. I wanted to stay up, think of a plan, and resolve everything right away. But… shifting my gaze to Nicholas, and his healing but still battle- bruised body, I couldn’t deny some rest was in order.

Veronica bid us goodnight and we left the room.

your room,” Nicholas

but seemed too tired

walk away, I pulled him into a

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me go. He quickly saluted as he turned and walked down the hallway, back toward the

then, and I asked Nicholas, “Where

“There’s plenty

“But…”

one, in case you need me.” He held out his arm, and I

quiet, my thoughts were a jumbled mess. I almost lost Nicholas tonight, which had my heart all twisted up inside. And when I thought of how

her lips to Nichola s’s. I

wanted to be the one

lost in his own thoughts, broke the silence first. “Piper. Tonight. Earlier. How did you know I was

with Julian

I didn’t want to be caught in this dark, ugly feeling all alone.

I said. I worried my bottom lip with my teeth, unsure if I should reveal the next part. Though, in the end, I was too tired to reason myself why I should keep it a secret. “I thought it was

“And it was Julian?”

“No,” I said. “Joyce.”

Nicholas frowned. “Joyce?”

nodded. “He was proving a point to me, about how I’m too trusting.

“I can’t argue that…”

then he accidentally locked me onto the

Nicholas frowned deeper. “Accidentally?”

trying to climb down a tree, when I slipped and landed on Julian. When I told him what happened, he said

was growing

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say something wrong?”

face. “But there’s a lot to think about.” His You thought

gaze

slid to me.

opened the door in the middle of the night and assumed it was

“)

some of his rising tension slipped away. “I wanted to see

too,” I replied. “It was

“It was?”

“Yes.”

drifted down to my mouth. Mine

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