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.

that he would never be interested in

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

dining room, holding Lilliana’s hand with only the barest touch, he didn’t seem happy. That,

I looked at him and his faceless expression, the more he seemed like a shell of the man I once knew. It hurt me to see. I couldn’t stand to look

minute, I turned away from the spectacle and headed into the gardens

set over the western tree line. The sky was painted in a palette of orange and

the view. I wondered if Elva was looking out the window to see it.

hoped she was

male voice said, suddenly behind

and turned

out of place or a

had more stripes and fringe than the other guards I’d

the head of the

but I had noticed

pointed him out.

with a severe expression. I felt much like an

voice gruff. “Are you lost?

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

the harder I tried to smile, the more