The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0041

As Nicholas asked out Lilliana, I stood in the back of the crowd of watching girls, my heart down on the

floor.

I had no right to be upset. I knew that. I had given up the right to be upset a long time ago.

Yet I couldn’t deny the feeling.

First, Nicholas had returned the handmade gift I made him, and now he was asking another girl on a solo

date.

According to the rules of the competition, solo dates were only supposed to be awarded after a girl performed well in one of the events.

Of course, from what I’d heard, the rules also stated that a prince could ask any girl out at any time, sol supposed such a thing wasn’t unheard of.

But for it to be Nicholas who asked for the first solo date felt like the hardest pill to swallow.

I understood that the candidates were invited here to the palace to date the princes. Soon, Nicholas would pick someone to marry.

already made it abundantly clear that he would

wanted him to be. We’d both moved on since then. It wasn’t my business who he

in the entryway to the dining room, holding Lilliana’s hand with only the barest touch, he didn’t seem happy.

faceless expression, the more he seemed like a shell of the man I once knew. It hurt me to see.

escape for a minute, I turned away from the spectacle and headed into

beginning to set over the western tree line. The sky was

I wondered if Elva was looking out the window to see it. We

hoped she

you lost, miss?” a male voice

jumped, startled, and turned

appearance was immaculate, with not a hair out of place or a speck of dirt on his guard uniform.

and fringe

because he was the head of the royal guards.

met personally, but I had noticed him when some of the other

pointed him out.

a severe expression. I

voice gruff. “Are

smile. I didn’t want to make a bad first impression with

the harder I tried to smile, the more his eyes