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.”

and worries. I struggled to

had to

her leave the palace, would he? She was

that. Especially when I thought of how gently he had held her when she ran to him at the mixer in

where would he

in the palace was off–limits to him. Where would I even

was a grave offense. Nathan had made clear

for Elva. I

think I wanted

I

door, I glanced,

had told

looking fully at me. “Miss Piper,

me. I’ll show

quickly went the guard. Sensing my urgency, he maintained a fast pace as he led me through the back hallways of the palace, through places Nathan had not included

surely allowed if I’d been

it brought me to

few beds and a wall of bookcases. Several tables were covered in

equipment and microscopes.

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