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.

abundantly clear that he would

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

there in the entryway to the dining room, holding Lilliana’s hand

his faceless expression, the more he seemed like a shell of the man I once knew. It

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

just beginning to set over the western tree line. The sky was painted in a palette of orange and purple. It was

the window to see it. We had

she

miss?” a male

and turned to

immaculate, with not a hair out of place

and fringe than the

was the head of the royal guards.

but I had noticed him when some of the other girls

pointed him out.

stared at me with a severe expression. I felt much like an ant

voice gruff. “Are you lost?

smile. I didn’t want to make a bad first impression with the man in charge of Elva and my

to smile,

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