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

like the princess I am

tamer, however. Something

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

animals had a sixth

of the property,” Lilliana said. “I felt

belong to

noticed she talked of the property and the palace and what

of the prince himself, like his beautiful golden

of Nicholas’s qualities in how much it

money. The power.

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

him as a person.

for him. Hopefully he

were sharing sharp looks toward each other, and open glares

the room thickened as she continued to

First Ball was

the girls, it seemed as

but I too wanted

jealous. It was

worthy

Chapter 0046

Ball, and I was dressed in my beautiful,

my brown hair into a tight up do, with a

figure of me, though her dress

giggling as

laughing, she looked like the

quick hug. “You are

went to the door, the strange maid stopped me. “Don’t forget

me

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

as well, but she was further back in the room and not looking

thank

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

toothy grin. “The

the parlor room, where we waited for the results for the

were a rainbow of colors and

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

seemed confident the own gown and I genely wasn’t

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

First, he said. “Divis

Smile was

that reached down to

same color the queen always wears