The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 43

Chapter 43

At first glance, she appeared friendly enough, smiling peacefully. She curtsied to me and introduced herself.

Tm looking forward to serving you,” she said.

But I found it strange. Surely she had passed my other maid being taken away down the hall. What kind of person would be smiling so calmly after having witnessed such a thing?

icholas.

I

I

Today was the day for Nicholas’s solo date, and I was trying my very best not to think about it.

Ever since receiving Joseph’s threatening letter, I’d been hiding out in my room as much as I could to

avoid him and the mean–looking guards.

With the First Ball fast approaching, I used the extra time in my room to help my maids work on me and

Elva’s gowns.

The dress had to be perfect. The order of introductions for the girls at the ball was to be determined by

the princes‘ preferences of the dresses.

Once the gowns were finished, pictures were to be taken of them and given to the princes, who would

then select their favorites. Those favorites would be the first ones introduced at the ball, and therefore

given the most time with the princes.

And with the cameras.

A major component of the Luna Choosing Game, was earning the public’s favor. I had a small advantage

people, being one myself. But people like Lena and Joseph existed in every

to believe that even with my slight advantage, I would make

didn’t mean

the design for my dress into three separate parts that we had worked

we were ready to combine the

finished Elva’s

on doing the final work,

dress was not to be included in the shot, since that would ruin

was looking at something outside the window, likely

I

I kept thinking about Nicholas’s solo date, but it shouldn’t be enough

and I were over

the length of the room, nervousness and

to me. “Mommy,

distraction, I

toward the stables.

the stables as horses were brought to them

hands.

that

horse chosen for Lilliana was a brown and white mare that

to sidestep whenever

approach Lilliana. He

Lilliana shook her head,

some mumbled voices, but with the way Lilliana held up her pure white gloves, I assumed she refused to treat the horse to spare her

ing dirty.

getting dirty.

wondered how she would

I

sugar cube to the horse himself. In his

and with Nicholas’s help, lifted herself up into

lingered near her waist, keeping her

we had gone horseback riding

same way.

feel the phantom touch

“Tell me when you

him a playful smile. “What if I want to

I

for today and return to one of our rooms instead. If you want

properly

if he was saying much the same thing to

much at all. Nicholas moved his hands away from her waist quickly and

a distance, these two did

Nicholas had chosen her, out of all the candidates,

his stallion. He waited for Lilliana to bring her mare alongside his horse, and then together they started to ride forwards at a slow pace – which brought them

at the window.

she realized, “He’s

could figure out what she was going

She waved both arms.

glowered, but Nicholas’s stern expression seemed to

a hand and waved

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