I wanted to storm over there and demand Kirsten apologize for accepting thanks for a gift she hadn’t

given. But I couldn’t do so without revealing to Nicholas that I was the one who had given it. If Nicholas

knew the truth, he’d assume the worst.

He’d think the gift was disingenuous, and that I was just chasing after his crown.

I didn’t want nobility. I didn’t want to be his wife, or girlfriend, or whatever else.

I

I only wanted medical care for Elva. So I kept my mouth firmly shut.

Julian plucked my dropped bow off the ground and handed it to me. “Something on your mind, Piper?”

His knowing smirk returned tenfold.

I wasn’t in the mood for his games anymore.

my room.

I turned in my bow and went back to my

lesson with the dancing instructor, all of the girls rested in the parlor, accepting

towels from the servants.

stood nearby, loudly discussing the proper rules for the First Ball. The princes would each take a turn dancing with all the ladies. However,

girls bemoaned the randomness. “I

Kirsten, seemed confident that things would pull in their

next to him at the banquet,” Kirsten said. “I wouldn’t be surprised

to be random,”

eyes. “Nothing is

did my best to ignore her, still irritated over

focused on Elva instead. I lifted her and twirled her through the air. She giggled in delight. The sound soothed me like a balm over my

at the ball?” Elva asked,

have all kinds of deserts. Candles

pretty dresses? Elva

the prettiest

Susie said from beside

princess to attract the attention of the princes,”

dress do you think they’d prefer?”

First Ball was ‘Blessings of the Moon Goddess.” What that

interpretation.

toward the classic look of the Moon Goddess. They’d wear dresses

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