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

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

But even so, Nicholas was not the type of person to take advantage of that. He danced with

see while it lasts,” another girl said. “Hope you are enjoying yourself too, Piper. We

but didn’t say anything. I knew I’d be gone soon as well

Are those guards headed

staring. True enough, a pair of guards was weaving their way through the crowd, coming right

you think

go by, but instead they stopped night in

“Miss Piper one asked

here for you,” whispered one of

that’s me.” I

must have been more of Joseph’s guards, the

who had

Follow me

walk away. The other waited for me to follow the

  1. me.

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

paused, though, when he

guards led me away from the ballroom and into a side, sitting room. The Queen herself sat on a

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