The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

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.

you to your room,” Nicholas

but seemed too tired to argue. “We’ll talk

he could walk away, I pulled him into

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

occurred to me then, and I asked

“There’s plenty of spare

“But…”

case you need me.” He held out his arm, and I slipped mine through

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

worse when I thought of my twin pressing her lips to Nichola s’s.

the heart. I wanted to be the one Nicholas

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

out with Julian

jealousy healed a part of me. I didn’t want to be caught in this dark, ugly feeling

balcony,” 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

“And it was Julian?”

“No,” I said. “Joyce.”

Nicholas frowned. “Joyce?”

I’m too trusting. I put myself into dangerous situations without

“I can’t argue that…”

ignored that dig. “But then he

Nicholas frowned deeper. “Accidentally?”

couldn’t imagine it any other way. “I was trying to climb down a tree, when I slipped and landed on Julian. When I told him what happened, he said we

was growing increasingly

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say something wrong?” I

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

gaze

slid to me.

glanced up at him from under my eyelashes. “And you opened the door in the middle of the night and assumed

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

too,” I replied. “It was the

“It was?”

“Yes.”

down to my mouth. Mine dropped to