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

Nicholas lifted me into the saddle like the princess I am soon to be,” she said. “The

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

on it now, maybe that poor horse had reason to be afraid of Lillianna when it had first met

had been said that animals had

“I felt

soon belong to

property and

of the prince himself, like his beautiful golden

framed all of Nicholas’s qualities in how much it

The power.

bit of fury collected inside of me. Nicholas deserved someone

him as a person.

Hopefully he

sharp looks toward each other, and

room thickened

Ball was quickly

seemed as if Lilliana

I too wanted to see her eliminated from

It was just pure objective

wasn’t worthy

Chapter 0046

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

tied my brown hair into a tight up do, with a few loose tendrils

of me, though her dress came up to her

and she couldn’t stop giggling as she spun

she looked like the physical embodiment of

pulled her into a quick

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

me

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their length. It would have been a faux pas

turned to thank the quiet maid as well, but she was further back in the room and not

thank

I took her hand. “Let’s go to the ball, Elva”

a toothy

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, but

with such ease, she must have been used to it. Others were similar, carefully sidestepping their trains or lifting their

the own gown and I

themselves We waited

First, he said. “Divis

Smile was

reached down

same color the queen