The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 23

Chapter 0023

When I returned to the bedroom, Elva was missing from the bed. I nearly screamed, were it not for both of maids, who quickly approached me.

“W–where’s Elva?” I asked them, panic quaking my voice.

“You caused a right commotion, running around,” the talkative maid said. “It was enough to catch the

attention of Prince Nicholas.”

Nicholas? “He’s still at the banquet…?”

I remembered looking back at him as I was leaving. He’d been smiling at an eager girl desperate for his

attention.

“The banquet is still occurring,” the maid said. “He must have excused himself early.”

Why would he do such a thing? Surely he hadn’t overheard what Susie said about Elva? Even if he had, he w

wouldn’t have cared… would he?

“Prince Nicholas.came in here,” the quieter maid said. “He felt Elva’s fever, and then carried her out of

this room himself.”

worries. I struggled to think straight. I only knew that wherever

I had to be near

make her leave the palace, would he? She was just a

that. Especially when I thought of how gently he had held her when she ran

would he

prince. Nowhere in the palace was

grave offense. Nathan had made clear that it could cost me

to be strong for Elva.

to think I

I

door, I glanced,

who had told me they’d been

troubled now, looking fully at me. “Miss

I’ll show you

quickly went the guard. Sensing my urgency, he maintained a fast pace as he led me through the back hallways of the palace, through places Nathan had not included on his

off–limit places was surely allowed if I’d been summoned, right? I didn’t have time to worry.

it

a few beds and a wall of

equipment and microscopes.

far

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