The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 23

When I returned to the bedroom, Elva was missing from the bed. I nearly screamed, were it not for both of maids, who quickly approached me.

“W–where’s Elva?” I asked them, panic quaking my voice.

“You caused a right commotion, running around,” the talkative maid said. “It was enough to catch the

attention of Prince Nicholas.”

Nicholas? “He’s still at the banquet…?”

I remembered looking back at him as I was leaving. He’d been smiling at an eager girl desperate for his

attention.

“The banquet is still occurring,” the maid said. “He must have excused himself early.”

Why would he do such a thing? Surely he hadn’t overheard what Susie said about Elva? Even if he had, he w

wouldn’t have cared… would he?

“Prince Nicholas.came in here,” the quieter maid said. “He felt Elva’s fever, and then carried her out of

this room himself.”

was a spiral of fear and worries. I struggled to think straight. I only knew that

I had to be

make her leave the palace, would

as he’d changed from three years ago, he wouldn’t hurt Elva. I was certain of that. Especially when I thought of how

would

Nowhere in the palace was off–limits to

room. That was a grave offense. Nathan had made clear that it could

to be strong for Elva. I needed to be

I

I

knacked on the door, I glanced,

told

troubled now, looking fully at me. “Miss Piper,

with me. I’ll show you the

pace as he led me through the back hallways of the palace,

allowed if I’d been summoned, right? I didn’t have time to

beheading if it

and a wall of bookcases. Several tables were covered in

equipment and microscopes.

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