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

princess I am soon

however. Something

reason to be afraid of Lillianna when it had

had a sixth sense about

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

belong to

she spoke, I noticed she talked of the property and the

himself, like his beautiful golden eyes or

Nicholas’s qualities in how

money. The power. The

of me.

him as a person.

was all wrong for him. Hopefully he would realize that sooner rather than

girls were sharing sharp looks toward

in the room thickened as she

Ball

as if Lilliana was enemy

but I too wanted to see her eliminated from

was just

wasn’t worthy of

Chapter 0046

night of the First Ball, and

of my maids had tied my brown hair into a tight up

me, though her dress came up

giggling as

looked like the physical embodiment

into a quick hug. “You are a

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

me

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and their length. It would have been

but she was further back in the

thank

I took her hand. “Let’s go to

a toothy

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

beautiful in its own way. They were a rainbow of colors and materials, but each more spectacular than the

so putty, I wondered how she intended to dance. Though she moved with such ease, she must have been used to it. Others were similar, carefully sidestepping their trains or lifting their long

gown and

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

First, he said. “Divis

Smile was

reached down to

color the queen