The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0045

My whole heart shattered. “No, no, that’s not true. Prince Nicholas likes you a lot.”

Elva pulled away to look up at me with large, watery eyes. “But she said Nick–lass is mad at me. She said

I was naughty.”

“We can’t listen to her, okay?”

Her cupped her face with my hands and wiped away her tears. New ones just kept falling. My anger for Lena renewed, and I half wanted to chase her down the hall to give her a piece of my mind.

No one makes my little girl cry like this!

“She’s just a mean lady who doesn’t know what she’s talking about. Nicholas likes you. He’s not mad. He waved at you, didn’t he?”

The words seemed to placate Elva somewhat. Her tears lessened, though her sniffling remained. Her brows furrowed like she was thinking it through.

“He did wave…

“Because he likes you.”

“…Okay.” Her voice was small. It didn’t seem like I had fully convinced her, but I doubted I could say anything that would.

She would have to hear it from Nicholas himself.

Maybe if I could talk to him alone, I could convince him to spend some time with Elva.

Lena would hate it, and so would the other girls. I’d have to make sure it happened at a time that didn’t conflict with any of his other obligations.

Surely he would meet with her though? If I told him she thought he didn’t like her?

Surely he hadn’t become totally heartless in the past three years?

No, I knew he hadn’t. I had seen the soft–hearted way he’d interacted with Elva before

He might hate me, but he liked her. He would be willing to do this, I was sure.

I just had to get him alone to ask.

The next morning at breakfast, Lilliana was the most popular girl in the room. Every other girl wanted to know every detail of her solo–date with Nicholas.

attention seemed to go straight to her head, and she calmly and smugly answered every question she

was asked, albeit with a haughty attitude.

I

like the princess I am soon to be,” she said. “The

have been tamer, however. Something

had reason to

been said that animals had a sixth sense about

property,” Lilliana said. “I felt as if the prince was

belong to

she talked of the property and the palace and what she

mention qualities of the prince himself, like his beautiful golden

framed all of Nicholas’s qualities in how much it could bring

power.

of fury collected inside of me. Nicholas deserved someone who would notice things

him as a person.

all wrong for him. Hopefully he

sharp looks toward each other,

in the room thickened as she continued to

Ball was quickly

the girls, it seemed as if Lilliana was

but I too wanted to see

It was just pure objective

worthy of

Chapter 0046

of the First Ball, and I was dressed in my beautiful, shimmering yellow gown it was

maids had tied my brown hair into a tight

of me, though her

and she couldn’t stop giggling as she spun in

she looked like the physical embodiment of

her into a quick hug.

strange maid stopped me. “Don’t forget your gloves.”

me

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their length. It would have been a faux pas

thank the quiet maid as well, but she was further back in

thank her

hand. “Let’s go to the ball,

toothy grin.

other girls in the parlor room, where we waited for the results for the dress contest. The princes‘ preferences for our dresses

They were a rainbow of colors and materials, but each more

ease, she must have been used to it. Others were similar, carefully sidestepping their

seemed confident the own gown and I genely wasn’t sure who would

Notham arrived, at the girls hushed themselves We waited

First, he said. “Divis

Smile was

down to the

the same color the queen always wears