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

be. We’d both moved on since then.

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,

at him and his faceless expression, the more he seemed like a shell

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

the western tree line. The sky was painted

view. I wondered if Elva was looking out the window to see it. We had never gotten much time to appreciate nature back in the

she was looking

miss?” a male voice said,

jumped, startled, and turned to face the

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

fringe than the other guards

the head

not someone I had met personally, but I had noticed him when some of

pointed him out.

expression. I felt much like an ant under

gruff. “Are you lost? The

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

to