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

the saddle like the princess I am

me could have been tamer, however. Something I will rectify when

to be afraid of

had been said that animals had a sixth sense about people

along the edge of the property,” Lilliana said. “I felt as if the prince

belong to

the property and the palace and what she

himself, like his beautiful golden eyes

framed all of Nicholas’s qualities in how

The power.

bit of fury collected inside of me. Nicholas deserved

him as a person.

him. Hopefully he would realize that sooner rather

looks toward each other, and open glares at

thickened as she continued to

First Ball

it seemed as if Lilliana

I too wanted to see her eliminated

was just pure

wasn’t worthy of Nicholas.

Chapter 0046

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

a tight up do, with a few loose

Elva was a near mirror figure of me, though her dress came

giggling

she looked like the

a quick hug. “You are

went to the door, the strange maid stopped me. “Don’t forget your gloves.”

me

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about gloves and their length. It would have been a faux

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

to thank her

I took her hand. “Let’s

toothy grin. “The princess

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

were a rainbow of colors and materials,

such ease, she must have been used to it. Others

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

at the girls hushed themselves We waited with bated breath as Nathan read the erder of

First, he said. “Divis

Smile was

reached down to the

would pick the same color the