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.

clear that he would

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

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

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

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

The sky was

the window to see it. We had never gotten much time to appreciate nature back in the bustle

hoped she was looking

lost, miss?” a male

jumped, startled, and turned to

was immaculate, with not a hair out of place

and fringe than the other guards

the head

personally, but I had noticed

pointed him out.

stared at me with a severe expression. I felt

ask once more,” he said, voice gruff. “Are you lost?

smile. I didn’t want to make a bad first

harder I tried to smile,