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.

abundantly clear that he

to be. We’d both moved on since then. It

entryway to the dining room, holding Lilliana’s hand with only the barest

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

I turned away from the spectacle and headed

the western tree line. The sky was painted in a palette of

enjoyed the view. I wondered if Elva was looking out the window to see it. We had never

hoped she was

male voice

turned

place or a speck

fringe than the other

the head of the

I had

pointed him out.

a severe expression. I felt much like an

said, voice gruff. “Are you lost? The banquet is

to offer a friendly smile. I didn’t want to

tried to smile,