Chapter 0071

I should have known better.

He stood from the bed. “There are many girls here who would make good Lunas. Olivia is perhaps the

strongest of the group.”

I don’t know what I had been expecting, but my stomach still twisted uncomfortably as he spoke

other girls.

“She’s beautiful and cunning. And she has a strong following in the public. Lilliana has the proper

demeanor. And then there’s –”

“Okay, that’s enough. I get the picture.”

Nicholas shrugged, as if to say, you asked.

I regretted that choice.

“Rest now,” Nicholas said. “I’ll send my physician to check on you.”

Without another word, he walked to the door and left me.

the

For

cared for me. But then when he had talked about those

only saved me out of a sense of duty. Maybe he would have done

girls.

and groaned. The mixed messages

I wanted to

me sort through it, but I had

how she was paying for my half of the rent with me

roommate. I

I could call her, but that was impossible. Since my phone

no way to communicate with the

bring me some peace. I tried to

if I

sure you are going to be eliminated – which, I’m not convinced of, by the

second you are there. Eat that

last of which, she would say with

antics, I drifted off to

and no shortness of luck, I was able to recover by the next day with

sniffles and a headache, but no fever.

my sickness, she was set up in another room

her side at all

I could see her, but I’d never dare chance passing my cold onto her.

suffer a much worse sickness than

me away from my other

was called down to the parlor with the rest of the candidates

entered the room, the other girls all kept fair distance from me. I didn’t mind. I

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