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

to believe that even with my slight advantage, I would

didn’t mean I wouldn’t

the design for my dress into three separate parts

Now, we were ready to combine the three elements into a complete

finished Elva’s

insisted on doing the final work,

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

window, likely the

I

I kept thinking about Nicholas’s

and I were

nervousness and trepidation waging war within my

to me. “Mommy, come

the distraction, I joined

toward the stables.

entrance of the stables as

hands.

was a regal black stallion that greedily accepted a sugar cube from Nicholas’s

was a brown and white

whenever

noticing. left his own horse to approach Lilliana. He offered her

Lilliana shook her head, refusing

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.

how she would hold the

I

to the horse himself. In his presence, the mare

then, and with Nicholas’s help, lifted herself up

near her

the times we had gone horseback riding together. He had helped me then,

same way.

could still feel the phantom touch of his strong

“Tell me when

“What if I want to stay like

I

brightly under the sun. “Then we should give up on horseback riding for today

properly

saying much the same thing to

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

a distance, these two did not seem to like each

Nicholas had chosen her, out of all the candidates, for his

mounted his stallion. He waited for Lilliana to bring her mare alongside his horse,

at the window.

realized, “He’s coming

before I could figure out what she was going

She waved both arms.

looked up. Lilliana glowered, but Nicholas’s

lifted a hand and waved

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