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

saddle like the princess I

could have been tamer, however.

to be afraid of Lillianna when

said that animals had a

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

belong to

noticed she talked of the property and the palace and what

the prince himself,

framed all of Nicholas’s qualities in how much

power. The house and

of me. Nicholas deserved someone who would

him as a person.

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

were sharing sharp looks toward each other, and open glares at Lilliana.

thickened as

First Ball

as

but I too wanted to see her eliminated from

was just pure

wasn’t worthy of Nicholas.

Chapter 0046

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

into a tight

a near mirror figure of me, though

couldn’t stop giggling

she looked like the

into a quick hug. “You are

stopped me. “Don’t forget your gloves.” She handed

me

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their length. It would have been a

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

thank her later

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

gave a toothy

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

I wondered how she intended to dance. Though she moved with such ease, she must have been used to it. Others were similar,

and I

waited

First, he said. “Divis

Smile was

that reached down to the

she would pick the same color