The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

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

one myself. But people like

little reason to believe that even with my slight advantage, I would make it far in

mean

I had split the design for my dress into three separate parts

we were ready to combine the three elements

already finished Elva’s matching dress

quiet maid insisted on doing the final work, as she

for the dresses photo shoot. Elva’s dress was not to be included in the shot,

something outside the window, likely the horses again, with the

I

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

and I were over

length of the room, nervousness and trepidation waging war within my chest.

Elva called to

I joined her at

pointed down toward

the entrance of the stables

hands.

black stallion that greedily accepted a

horse chosen for Lilliana was a brown and white mare that seemed

sidestep whenever Lilliana came

Lilliana. He offered her a

her head, refusing

this distance, I couldn’t hear the exact words spoken beyond some mumbled voices, but with the way Lilliana held up her pure white gloves, I assumed she refused to treat the

ing dirty.

getting dirty.

she would hold

I

horse himself.

with Nicholas’s help,

her waist, keeping

gone horseback riding together. He had helped me then, much in

same way.

could still feel the phantom touch of his

then. “Tell me when you are

given him a playful smile. “What if I want to stay like

I

green sparkling brightly under the sun. “Then we should give up on horseback riding for today and return to one of our rooms instead. If you

properly

if he was saying much the same thing

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

from a distance, these two did not

I couldn’t imagine why Nicholas had chosen her, out of all the candidates,

waited for Lilliana to bring her mare alongside his horse, and then

at the window.

when she realized, “He’s

before I could figure out what she was going to do, she shouted from the window, “Hi,

She waved both arms.

glowered, but Nicholas’s

a hand and waved