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

that even with my slight advantage, I would make it far in this

didn’t mean

for my dress into three separate parts

Now, we were ready to combine the three elements into

already finished Elva’s

the final work, as she

began arranging the mannequin for the dresses photo shoot. Elva’s dress was not to be included in the shot, since that would

at something outside the window, likely the horses

I

Nicholas’s solo date,

were

room, nervousness and trepidation waging war within my chest.

to me.

for the distraction, I joined her at

pointed down toward the

the entrance of the stables as horses were brought to them

hands.

a regal black stallion that greedily accepted a

and white mare that seemed nervous around her. The

whenever Lilliana

Lilliana.

Lilliana shook her head,

mumbled voices, but with the way Lilliana held up her pure

ing dirty.

getting dirty.

wondered how she would hold the

I

sugar cube to the horse himself. In his presence, the

approached then, and with Nicholas’s help, lifted

her

the times we had gone horseback riding together.

same way.

myself remember, I could still feel the phantom touch of his

fall,” he’d said then. “Tell

“What if I want to stay

I

on horseback riding for today and return to one of our rooms instead. If you

properly

wondered if he was saying much the same thing to Lilliana,

his hands away from her

two did not seem

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

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.

realized, “He’s

was going to do, she shouted from the window,

She waved both arms.

Lilliana glowered, but Nicholas’s

lifted a hand and

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