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 would never be

that I wanted him to be. We’d both moved on since then. It

at 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

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

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

the western tree line. The sky was painted in a palette of orange and purple. It

looking out the window to see it. We had never gotten

she was

lost, miss?” a male voice said,

jumped, startled, and turned to face the

hair out of place or a speck of

stripes and fringe than the other

because he was the head

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

pointed him out.

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

more,” he said, voice gruff.

just needed a moment to catch my breath.” I tried to offer a friendly smile. I didn’t want to make a bad first impression with the man in charge

the harder I tried to smile, the more his