The Luna Choosing Game

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.

it abundantly clear that he

be. We’d both moved on since then. It wasn’t

holding Lilliana’s hand with only the barest touch, he didn’t seem happy.

shell of the man I once knew. It hurt me to see. I couldn’t

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

sun was just beginning to set over the western tree line. The sky was painted in a palette of

window to see

hoped she was

you lost, miss?” a male voice said,

and turned to face

out of place or

fringe

the head

I had met personally, but I had noticed him when some of the other

pointed him out.

a severe expression. I felt much like an

more,” he said, voice gruff. “Are you lost? The banquet