The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0544

Eventually, though, we both gave in to our more mature impulses and separated so Nicholas could get dressed. He slipped on his shorts, and then held up the shirt that had been our blanket.

It was almost certainly ruined: wrinkled and covered in sand, with a few mystery wet spots here and there. He rolled it up into a tight ball and held it in his hand.

I lifted a brow at him.

*I think I'd only generate more questions by wearing this as it is," he said.

Yeah, he was probably right.

Back home, the two of us returning from somewhere with him being shirtless would have people wondering, but here, we were surrounded by beach and ocean. Sunbathing could be a perfectly logical explanation for his state of dress - or rather, undress.

No one should really think better of it.

would, of course, because he'd already suspected what was going to happen. Bridget might as well, especially now that she knew the truth of Nicholas's

to bother thinking about

back with a sigh. "Let's get

the very least, I needed

nodded, and we pulled apart. Side by side, we walked out of the alcove and around the beach. We went the opposite way from the deck where most likely everyone else had gathered. Near the front of

touching my

with Charlotte behind her. Three more servants, larger

from Nicholas's hold - which wasn't overly difficult. He must have let me go. Then I

even as the other servants kept her

"Remember the quarantine!" Selma said. She held out her arms, blocking my path. She was slighter than me, I could have likely overtaken her. But that didn't seem appropriate. Even if I did, even if I fought all of them, Charlotte wouldn't be allowed to stay. In that case, we'd both have

the few allies I had here, especially when I had no

me again, but he

plane loaded up, the closed the door, and

as long as