The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 56

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.

had a good

knew I’d be the

I would be forced to leave. From then

reclusive. In that case, we

any hope of maintaining this lifestyle, including keeping

as a

said, and pulled Elva

arms around my neck and

her. “We’ll be okay. No matter what

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my arms, I carried her back to our room and tucked

the night, but

for me to finish

Elva sleeping within it, I motioned the maid closer

some rest” I said: “I don’t need anything

my offending gloves. I hadn’t forgotten the apparent betrayal of my maids, who surely

the wrong

blinked at

not the gloves I made for you. I don’t know where those came from, or why they exist. I swear to you

in the servants‘ corridors. It likely wouldn’t take long until the entire palace

“I don’t know why the other maid gave you the wrong gloves.

“I

don’t think

“No”

to sabotage me. But why?

first one to go home. Why make things

like an eavesdropper might be listening at the door. “Someone might be out to harm

shiver ran up my

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and Elva fell asleep in my arms, I carried her back

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