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 am soon

been tamer, however. Something I will rectify when I am

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

said that animals had a sixth sense about

property,” Lilliana said. “I

belong

talked of the property and the palace and what she would fix as

qualities of the prince himself,

qualities in how much it could bring

The power. The house and

collected inside of me. Nicholas deserved someone who would notice things

him as a person.

was all wrong for him. Hopefully he would realize that

sharp looks toward each other,

in the room thickened

First Ball was quickly

as

didn’t want to harm her, but I too wanted to

wasn’t jealous. It was

wasn’t worthy

Chapter 0046

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

my brown hair into a tight up do, with a few

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

stop giggling as she

laughing, she looked like

a quick hug. “You are

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

me

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traditions about gloves and their length. It would have been a faux pas to show up

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

to thank her

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

a toothy grin. “The princess

congregated with the other girls in the parlor room, where we waited for the results for the dress contest. The princes‘ preferences for our

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

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

get seemed confident the own gown and I

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

First, he said. “Divis

Smile was

down to the

color the queen always