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

was so confused. His rescue had been daring. For a moment,

when he had talked about those

out of a sense of duty.

girls.

and groaned. The mixed messages were hard to decipher, and then,

even certain what I wanted to be

sort through it, but I had no way to talk to

how she was paying for

another roommate. I wondered what they

call her, but that was impossible. Since my

to communicate

her steady comfort helped bring me some peace. I tried to

say if I could talk

you are so sure you are going to be eliminated

there. Eat that good food. Walk through those

of which, she would say

imaginary antics, I drifted off to

I was able to recover

and a headache, but no fever. It felt

from my sickness, she was set up in another room for now with a

side at all times, guarding

but I’d never dare chance

she would suffer a much worse

could not keep me away from my other responsibilities of

to the parlor with the rest

I entered the room, the other girls all kept fair distance

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