The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0056

“Marry him, then.” She nodded, like it was decided. Like it was somehow that easy.

I hated disappointing her. I wished I could let her believe what she wanted.

“I’m sorry, Elva. But Prince Nicholas and I won’t ever be a couple. No matter what.”

She looked up at me with large, vulnerable eyes. “Not ever?”

I shook my head.

“But why?”

Because I broke his heart? Because he thought I had betrayed him? Because he’d returned the gift I’d

made him? Because he was a prince, and I was just a wolf–less waitress?

There were so many reasons. All of which felt like too much information for my small daughter.

“We’re just not meant to be,” I said.

Elva had a grasp of fairy tales and happily ever after. Even if she couldn’t understand everything, she

might be able to handle this much.

She must have, because her questions stopped. But then she started to cry.

“But I like him, Mommy,” she said, wiping at her eyes. “If you married him, then he would be my Dad.”

I hated more than anything to disappoint her, but what could I do? I couldn’t lie to her about this, not to

then have to reveal the truth like it was all some cruel joke.

competition. I’d had a

to stay. Everyone knew I’d be the first

I would be forced to leave. From then on,

being reclusive. In that case, we

like our future held any hope of maintaining this lifestyle,

as

I said, and

wrapped her arms around my neck and cried into my

rubbed her back to soothe her. “We’ll be okay. No matter what

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the ball had ended and Elva fell asleep in my arms, I carried her back to our room and

for the night, but the quiet maid stayed nearby, as

for me to finish

motioned the maid closer to the door. We spoke

said:

tugged at my offending gloves. I hadn’t forgotten the apparent betrayal of my maids, who surely knew bout the Queen’s rules for glove–length

the wrong gloves,” the quiet

blinked at her.

I’d scrunched up in my hand. “Those are not the gloves I made for you. I don’t know where those came from, or why they exist.

from the Queen must have traveled fast in the servants‘ corridors. It

quiet maid said. “I don’t know why the other maid gave you the wrong gloves. Maybe it

“I

think so,” I

“No”

other maid had purposefully meant to sabotage me. But why? For what

be the first one to go home. Why make things even

listening at the door. “Someone might be out

ran up my

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ball had ended and Elva fell asleep in my