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

then when

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

girls.

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

even certain what I wanted to be

able to help me sort through it, but I had no way to talk

had no idea how she was paying for

I wondered

I could call her, but that was impossible. Since my phone was confiscated on the first

to communicate with

bring me some peace. I tried to imagine

I could

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

there. Eat that good food. Walk through those

she would say with a

imaginary antics,

of luck, I was able to recover by

a light cold. I had sniffles and a headache,

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

her side at all

never dare chance passing my cold onto her.

she would suffer a much worse sickness

keep me away from my other responsibilities of the game, however,

was called down to the parlor with the rest of

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

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