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.

walk you to your room,” Nicholas

too tired to argue. “We’ll talk

I pulled him into a quick hug. “Thank

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

I asked

shrugged. “There’s plenty of spare

“But…”

his arm, and I slipped mine through his. He began to lead me

we walked through the quiet, my thoughts were a jumbled mess. I almost lost Nicholas tonight, which had my heart all

to Nichola s’s. I knew

it still speared me through the heart. I wanted to be the one

who had seemingly been lost in his own thoughts, broke the silence first. “Piper. Tonight. Earlier. How did you know I was missing so quickly?” His

been out with

as it was, his jealousy healed a part of me. I didn’t want to be caught in this dark, ugly feeling all alone.

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

“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 put myself into dangerous situations without

“I can’t argue that…”

he accidentally locked me onto

Nicholas frowned deeper. “Accidentally?”

when I slipped and landed on Julian. When I

s’s face was

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say something wrong?”

think

gaze

slid to me.

under my eyelashes. “And you opened the door in

“)

he said. He sighed and some of his rising tension

I replied. “It was the

“It was?”

“Yes.”

my mouth. Mine

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