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 soon to be,” she

could have been tamer, however.

now, maybe that poor horse had reason to be

that animals had a sixth

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

belong to

the property and the palace and what she would

qualities of the prince himself, like his beautiful golden eyes or his

Nicholas’s qualities in how much

power. The house and

collected inside of me. Nicholas deserved

him as a person.

him. Hopefully he would realize

girls were sharing sharp looks toward each other, and

room thickened

Ball was quickly

as if Lilliana was enemy

want to harm her, but I too wanted to see her eliminated from the

wasn’t jealous. It was

wasn’t worthy

Chapter 0046

myself. It was the night of the First Ball, and I was dressed in my beautiful, shimmering yellow gown it was sleeveless, with

had tied my brown hair into a tight

mirror figure of me, though her dress came

and she couldn’t stop giggling as

she looked like

into a quick hug.

we went to the door, the strange maid stopped

me

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was relieved I knew there were traditions about gloves and their length. It would

quiet maid as well, but she was further back

thank

hand.

a toothy grin.

waited for the results for the dress contest. The princes‘ preferences for our

dress was beautiful in its own way. They were a rainbow of colors

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

and I

arrived, at the girls hushed themselves We waited with bated breath

First, he said. “Divis

Smile was

that reached down to the

she would pick the same color the queen always