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

to be. We’d both moved on since then. It wasn’t

standing there in the entryway to the dining room, holding Lilliana’s hand with

more 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

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

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

I wondered if Elva was looking out the window to see

she

you lost, miss?” a male voice said, suddenly behind

turned to face the

was immaculate, with not a hair out of place or a speck

had more stripes and fringe than

was the head of the royal guards.

had met personally, but I had

pointed him out.

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

he said, voice gruff.

moment to catch my breath.” I tried to offer a friendly smile. I didn’t want

to smile,