As Nicholas asked out Lilliana, I stood in the back of the crowd of watching girls, my heart down on the

floor.

I had no right to be upset. I knew that. I had given up the right to be upset a long time ago.

Yet I couldn’t deny the feeling.

First, Nicholas had returned the handmade gift I made him, and now he was asking another girl on a solo

date.

According to the rules of the competition, solo dates were only supposed to be awarded after a girl performed well in one of the events.

Of course, from what I’d heard, the rules also stated that a prince could ask any girl out at any time, sol supposed such a thing wasn’t unheard of.

But for it to be Nicholas who asked for the first solo date felt like the hardest pill to swallow.

I understood that the candidates were invited here to the palace to date the princes. Soon, Nicholas would pick someone to marry.

abundantly clear that he

since then. It wasn’t my business who

Lilliana’s hand with only the barest touch, he

shell of the

a minute, I turned away from the spectacle and headed into the gardens for

sun was just beginning to set over the western tree line. The

window to see it. We had never gotten much time to

hoped she was looking

miss?” a male voice

turned to face

out of place or a

fringe than

was because he was the

I had met personally, but I had noticed him

pointed him out.

expression. I felt much

he said, voice gruff. “Are you lost?

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