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

me into the saddle like the princess I am soon to be,”

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

to be afraid of Lillianna when it had first

been said that animals had a sixth sense

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

soon belong to

she spoke, I noticed she talked of the property and the palace and what she would fix as Luna.

the prince himself, like his beautiful golden eyes

framed all of Nicholas’s qualities in how much

power. The house

fury collected inside of me. Nicholas deserved someone who

him as a person.

for him. Hopefully he would realize that sooner rather

were sharing sharp looks toward each other, and open glares

room thickened as she

First Ball

seemed as if Lilliana

her, but I too wanted to

jealous. It was just pure

wasn’t worthy of

Chapter 0046

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

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

figure of me, though her dress came up to

she couldn’t stop giggling

looked like the

pulled her into a quick hug. “You are a

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

me

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

she was

thank her later

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

gave a toothy

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

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

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

and I

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

First, he said. “Divis

Smile was

that reached down to

she would pick the same color the queen