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.

would be eliminated from the competition. I’d had a good

to stay. Everyone knew I’d be the

From then on, we’d only

back to being reclusive. In that case,

held any hope of maintaining

even as a

I said, and

her arms around my neck and

her.

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arms, I carried her back to

had thought the maids would have left us for the night, but the

for me to finish

the bed, and Elva sleeping within it, I motioned the maid closer to the door. We

I said: “I don’t

maids, who surely knew bout the

wrong gloves,” the

at her.

not the gloves I made for you. I don’t

in the servants‘

don’t know why the other maid gave you the wrong gloves. Maybe it

“I

think so,”

“No”

purposefully meant to sabotage me. But why?

first one to go home. Why make things even worse for

might be listening at the door. “Someone might be out

ran

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and Elva fell asleep in my arms, I carried

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