The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story novel Chapter 167

Chapter 0167 

I followed Lilliana further into the gardens to a small rod–iron table with two chairs. Lilliana motioned for 

me to sit and then sat in the opposite chair. 

“I’m glad we could finally have a chance to talk like this,” Lilliana said. She rested both hands on top of 

the table. 

I’mirrored her for a moment, but it felt unnatural having my hands lifted so high. I lowered them into my 

lap instead. 

“What was it you wanted to 

talk to 

me about?” Nervousness prickled at my skin. While it wasn’t unusual for the candidates to talk to each other, this still felt like a special event. Lilliana had called me out in front of Nicholas himself. She very nearly broke character to do it. 

She gave me a sour kind of look. The way a disappointed principal would make to a rowdy student in. their charge. “Prince Nicholas. I want to ask you to please leave him alone. You are a distraction to him.” 

we are friends.” 

“I’m not doing anything to bother him, or at least, not trying to. But we 

Nicholas had come to my rescue more than once now. And somehow when I needed things or support, Nicholas was always around to help. But that’s what friends did. 

Lilliana narrowed her eyes. It was unusual for her to show any emotion. Tiny alarm bells started sounding in my head. 

“What is your problem, Piper?” she snapped, voice suddenly much sharper than it had been before. Her narrowed gaze had become a fully blown glare. 

I was shocked silent for a moment. I opened and closed my mouth like a fish. 

Lilliana did not wait for my reply. “You can’t have both brothers! If you are after Julian, you should stick with him and leave Nicholas alone. It doesn’t even make sense to chase both!” 

“I’m not chasing anyone.” I lifted my hands now, palms forward in defense. “I’m not after any of the brothers.” 

“Oh, sure, like anyone is supposed to believe that.” She crossed her arms. 

“It’s true!” 

She rolled her eyes. “You are constantly all over both of them. They won’t both pick you in the next elimination, Piper. Focus your efforts on Julian, who I shouldn’t need to remind you that you have been dating, and leave Nicholas to me.” 

She saw me as a threat. That much was clear. What she failed to understand was that I wasn’t a threat to her so much as she was a threat to herself. Nicholas might say now that he will marry whoever the King wants, but I refused he would be able to follow through. 

Nicholas deserved a partner. Not a pawn. 

I lowered my hands and lifted my chin. “I am friends with Nicholas. That is all. But because I am friends 

with him, I want him to be with someone he actually likes and not someone who just agrees with him all 

the time.” 

Lilliana looked at me for a moment, then threw her head back and laughed. “Piper, you are so naïve! That 

is not how royalty works. What did you think he was going to marry for love? Cute.” 

I knew she was making fun of me but she didn’t have to be so blasé about it. 

“No one marries for love.” She didn’t even look sad about it. She had simply just accepted it as fact. 

“Well, I think that should change, and not just for the sake of the princes, but for the girls too.” 

Lilliana laughed again, harder than before. “You want to save us all, huh? Oh, Piper. You need to just accept this is how things are. This is how they’ve always been, and it’s how they always will be.” 

“I refuse to accept that, and you should too.” 

“You are a riot,” Lilliana said, chuckling again. 

But then suddenly, she totally stifled herself. In the blink of an eye, she shifted from the haughty laughing princess to a wilting flower. 

I didn’t even need to look to know that Nicholas had approached us from behind me. 

“Piper must have told quite the joke,” Nicholas said. “I’ve never heard you laugh so… boisterously before, Liliana 

Lilliana placed her hand over her mouth and cleared her throat. “She can be quite funny when she wants 

to be.” 

I frowned. Nothing I had said was a joke. 

I’m pleased to hear it.” He walked to our table, a small smile on his l*ps. Yet one look at me, and that smile dimmed into an expression of confusion. “I know it was probably a fool’s hope, but I always wanted more of the nobility to get along.” 

Nicholas was kind, to include me in that statement, when everyone in the whole kingdom knew that! 

was common. 

Lilliana’s smile pulled tight. Her desire to put me down seemed at war with her will to want to agree with everything Nicholas said. I wondered which would win. 

“You are so kind, Nicholas,” she said after a beat. “To want us all to get along. Humans really should get along with one another better, shouldn’t they?” 

‘Nicholas’s face fell. “Yes. Thank you, Lillians