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.”

a spiral of fear and worries. I struggled to think straight. I only knew

had to be

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

Elva. I was certain of that. Especially when I thought of how gently he had held her when she ran to him at the

would he take

a prince. Nowhere in the palace was off–limits to him. Where

to his room. That was a grave offense. Nathan had made

strong for Elva. I needed

bedroom, trying to think I wanted to scream in

I

someone knacked on the door, I

who had told me they’d

seemed much less troubled now, looking fully at me. “Miss Piper, you are to go to

I’ll

led me through the back hallways of the palace,

been

if it brought

a wall of bookcases. Several tables were

equipment and microscopes.

far

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