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.

make a respectable Luna.

I didn’t want her to marry Nicholas. I didn’t want

Except me.

notion. One I had to let

be the one

on, for both

the words against my shoulder. “Can I go to

talk to yet. I really shouldn’t leave.

sick again. Her exhaustion

to our room.” At the very least, I could have the doctor check her out.

Mark’s care and hurry back to the

carried Elva out of the ballroom. The guards at the door

twice.

with the candidates at the gala,

gala was done.

all my sneaking down to the cellars, I was used to seeing the hallways so barren. Though typically, I would have Julian or Nicholas at my side. On my own, my nerves prickled

jumped out of my skin seeing another

the fabric that

exposing her face.

woman was Jane.

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