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.

it abundantly clear that he would never be interested

moved on since then. It wasn’t my business who he dated, or

to the dining room, holding Lilliana’s hand

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

from the spectacle and headed into the gardens for some fresh

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

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

hoped she was

miss?” a male

startled, and turned to face the

hair out of place or a

more stripes and fringe than

the head of the royal

I had noticed him

pointed him out.

severe expression. I felt much like an ant under

more,” he said, voice gruff. “Are you lost? The banquet

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

I tried to smile, the more his eyes

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