The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0246

For too long, I watched Nicholas across the room, as he greeted a benefactor and then introduced

Olivia. As it wasn’t Lilliana’s turn with the benefactor, she had been asked to stand back. She glared at

Olivia behind Nicholas’s back.

Nicholas turned on the charisma for the elderly benefactor. Olivia, beside him, did the same. They looked like a matching pair, working together to charm the benefactor. With the way the benefactor

blushed and smiled, it was clearly working.

I didn’t want to hate Olivia. Compared to Linda and some of the others, she had never physically done me or Elva harm. But watching the way she kept touching Nicholas’s arm… Or how she smiled at him… Or

once, she winked….

My heart had emotions all its own that had little to do with logic or reason. My heart hated Olivia out of sheer jealousy. She had closeness to Nicholas now. She could smile and laugh and flirt, and might even

be successful.

I imagined Nicholas choosing Olivia as his Luna and my gut squeezed tight. She was a good choice.

a respectable Luna.

marry Nicholas. I didn’t want anyone to

Except me.

notion. One I had to let

might be the one for me, but I would never be the one for Nicholas. I had

both our

I’m so sleepy,” Elva said, mumbling the words against my shoulder. “Can I

to yet. I really shouldn’t leave. But my heart was sore and lonely, and I

getting sick again. Her exhaustion

the very least,

leave her in Mark’s care and hurry back to

the ballroom. The guards at the door

twice.

at the gala, and the servants likely enjoying their free time

the gala

to seeing the hallways so barren. Though typically, I would have Julian or Nicholas at my side. On my own,

seeing another woman standing in a purple, shimmering gown at the end of the hallway.

that dress was made of the fabric that

woman turned toward me, exposing her face. My breath

woman was Jane.