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

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

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

he seemed like a shell of the man I once knew. It hurt me to see. I

a minute, I turned away from the spectacle

tree line. The sky was painted in

simply enjoyed the view. I wondered if Elva was looking out the window to see it. We had never gotten much time to

hoped she was

male voice said, suddenly

jumped, startled, and turned to face the

with not a hair out of place or a speck of

more stripes and fringe than the

was the

not someone I had met personally, but I

pointed him out.

a severe expression. I felt much like an ant under

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

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

harder I tried to smile, the more his eyes