The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0257

I entered the dining room and sat down for breakfast across from Tiffany and Veronica and beside

Susie. Susie gave me a supportive smile.

“How’s Elva?” she asked.

“She was just exhausted,” I replied. “I let her sleep in this morning.” 1

“Oh good. I was worried.” When Susie said something like that, I believed her.

Jessica sat on Susie’s other side. She quietly ate her breakfast without making much fuss. However,

further down the table from her, Olivia and Lilliana were both glaring at me.

“I’m surprised the King let her stay,” Olivia said loudly to Lilliana, who agreed.

Tiffany rolled her eyes. “I wasn’t aware that was any of your business, Olivia. Maybe you should focus on

yourself.” Softer, to only Veronica and me, she grumbled, “Like usual.”

“Did you say something, Tiffany?” Olivia called.

“Nothing to worry about,” Tiffany replied.

Olivia frowned. Everyone went back to their breakfast.

Lilliana, however, did not seem as willing to let things go. “Piper’s behavior from the gala is inexcusable,

no matter what you say. She doesn’t deserve to even be eating breakfast with us, let alone, to stay in the

competition.”

“Let it go,” Veronica said.

“No,” Lilliana snapped. Her wilting flower façade had been crumbling for a while now. I noticed at the

gala last night. She’d glared more than usual when Nicholas’s back was turned. Usually she’d hide it

better.

I wondered if it had to do with how Nicholas had been giving Olivia and me more attention than he had

to her, when she had been the supposed favorite for so long. Lately, it seemed, she had been falling out of

favor.

“Could you imagine someone like that as Luna? Our Kingdom would be the laughing stock of the entire

continent. She’s a disgrace, An embarrassment. Someone should show her the door before she makes

everything worse.”

you, Lilliana?” said Nicholas from

Lilliana instantly paled.

into her hand.

chair. “Oh, Prince Nicholas, you must have misheard me…” She

eyes wide

look on him before. Usually he bought into it.

he glowered.

hearing, as you have

Of course not…”

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earned her spot in this competition, and no one especially not you can say she

stay. Or perhaps you

scrambled closer to him, desperation in her eyes.

need. Please, return to your breakfast.” Nicholas glared at her,

he turned to me. “I would escort

to go.”

pushed my plate away

other, then I accepted Nicholas’s arm and let him

me from

in the hallway, I said, “Thank

saying that to

was talking about Jane,” I said.

what I’ve been able to tell, she’s resented

while.”

my head and looked at him sideways. I didn’t think he’d been able to see through Lilliana’s

veneer.

doesn’t hide her disdain as well as she thinks she does,” Nicholas said.

my assent. “Is she

want to know the answer if the answer was yes.

somewhat.

I was playing with fire. But I still

how much it

looked at me. “She was never my

treacherous thing. I had no reason to think that meant I was his favorite instead, except the intense focus of his gaze, the way he

didn’t know what to

okay, Piper,” he said. I guessed I didn’t need to know.

met by fair. Brave and strong. Valiant, always upholding

sense of justice.

would make a great King. And a wonderful

to see him as both. I would have to settle

me into an

his arms and kissed me until I was

against his mouth. “What was

like that was reason

I said. “Make it last until next time.”