The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

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.

he’s doing it just for

off a side of him people don’t

here as a publicity stunt. But even so, Nicholas was not the type of person to take advantage of that. He danced with Elva because he didn’t want her to be sad.

“Hope you are enjoying yourself too, Piper. We all know you’ll be

be gone soon as well as anyone, but it still hurt to hear other people

guards

pair of guards was weaving their way through the

do you 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 girls

that’s me.” I

watched me with blank expressions. These must have

wondered what happened to the ones who had initially been kind to me. I hoped

Follow me

The other waited for me to follow the first, then

1. me.

was unnerving, like I was being arrested or something. But

He paused, though, when he spotted me. His eyes narrowed as he took in the

Queen herself sat on a plush sofa, bracketed by a pair of older women nobles,