Chapter 0049

No, that was a foolish notion. He was kind to Elva because he was a kind person. At the end of the day, Elva and I were going to be eliminated from the competition.

We’d leave the palace, return to our little apartment with Anna, and never hear from Nicholas again, We’d probably see him on television sometimes, with updates on his new family.

It might hurt to see, but that was life.

Dreams were dreams. Reality was reality.

I couldn’t have both.

“It’s so nice of Prince Nicholas to spend so much time with you and your daughter,” said one of the other girls to me

“Looks good for the cameras, too,” said another girl, pointing as a cameraman came close to Elva.

Odd, I hadn’t really noticed them before.

Neither, apparently, had Nicholas. Because the moment he spotted the camera following Elva, he swung her the other way, out of the camera’s line of sight.

doing it just for show?” said

just shows off a side of him people don’t get to see. I’m not

knew Elva and I were only here as a publicity stunt. But even so, Nicholas was not the type of person to take advantage of that.

another girl said. “Hope you are enjoying yourself too, Piper. We all know you’ll

be gone soon as well as anyone,

guards headed

enough, a pair of guards was weaving their way through the crowd, coming right for

think they want?”

waited for them to go by, but instead they stopped night

“Miss Piper one asked

here for you,” whispered one of the

I told the

expressions. These must

the ones who had initially been kind to me. I hoped they

Follow me

guards began to walk away. The other waited for me to follow

  1. me.

I was being arrested or something. But how could

Elva and Nicholas. They were still dancing, now with her standing on his shoes. He paused, though,

sat on

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