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

confused. His rescue had been daring. For a moment, I had almost convinced

me. But then when

of a sense of duty. Maybe

girls.

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

I wanted

sort through it, but I had no way to talk to her. I hoped

paying for my half of the rent with

probably found another roommate. I wondered what they were

that was impossible. Since my phone

had no way to communicate with the

her and her steady comfort helped bring me

say if I could talk

are going to be eliminated –

there. Eat that good food. Walk through those

which, she would say with a

antics,

shortness of luck, I was able to recover by the

light cold. I had sniffles and a headache,

from my sickness, she was set up in

her side at all

wished I could see her, but I’d never dare chance

suffer a much worse

could not keep me away from my other responsibilities of the

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

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

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