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.

made it abundantly clear that

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

him standing there in the entryway to the dining room, holding Lilliana’s hand with only the barest touch, he didn’t seem happy. That, to me, was the greatest

expression, the more he seemed like a shell of the man

the spectacle and headed into the gardens

just beginning to set over the western tree line. The sky was painted in a palette

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

she was

a male

and turned to face

out of place or a speck of dirt on his guard uniform.

more stripes and fringe than

the head of the royal guards.

someone I had met personally, but I had noticed him when some

pointed him out.

severe expression. I felt much

gruff. “Are

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

to smile,