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

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

was not the type of person to take advantage of that. He

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

smile but didn’t say anything. I knew I’d be gone

those guards headed

True enough, a pair of guards was weaving their way

you think they

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

“Miss Piper one asked

whispered one of the girls into my

me.” I told

These must have been

ones who had initially been kind to

Follow me

to walk away. The other waited for

  1. me.

was unnerving, like I was being arrested or something. But how could that

paused, though, when he spotted me. His eyes

sitting room. The Queen herself sat on a plush sofa, bracketed by a pair of older women nobles, Lena stood behind the sofa, to the

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