The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 43

Chapter 43

At first glance, she appeared friendly enough, smiling peacefully. She curtsied to me and introduced herself.

Tm looking forward to serving you,” she said.

But I found it strange. Surely she had passed my other maid being taken away down the hall. What kind of person would be smiling so calmly after having witnessed such a thing?

icholas.

I

I

Today was the day for Nicholas’s solo date, and I was trying my very best not to think about it.

Ever since receiving Joseph’s threatening letter, I’d been hiding out in my room as much as I could to

avoid him and the mean–looking guards.

With the First Ball fast approaching, I used the extra time in my room to help my maids work on me and

Elva’s gowns.

The dress had to be perfect. The order of introductions for the girls at the ball was to be determined by

the princes‘ preferences of the dresses.

Once the gowns were finished, pictures were to be taken of them and given to the princes, who would

then select their favorites. Those favorites would be the first ones introduced at the ball, and therefore

given the most time with the princes.

And with the cameras.

A major component of the Luna Choosing Game, was earning the public’s favor. I had a small advantage

with the common people, being one myself. But people like Lena and Joseph existed in every class.

believe that even with my slight

didn’t mean I wouldn’t

I had split the design for my dress

to combine

Elva’s

doing the final work, as

newest maid began arranging the mannequin for the dresses photo shoot. Elva’s dress was not to be included in the

at something outside the window, likely the

I

why, I kept thinking about Nicholas’s solo date, but

and I were over long

of the room, nervousness and trepidation waging

to me. “Mommy, come

for the distraction, I joined her at

Elva pointed down toward the stables. “It’s

entrance of the stables as horses were brought to

hands.

regal black stallion that greedily accepted a sugar cube from

a brown and white mare that seemed nervous around her. The

sidestep whenever Lilliana came too

approach Lilliana. He offered her

Lilliana shook her

beyond some mumbled voices, but with the way Lilliana held up her pure white gloves, I assumed she refused

ing dirty.

getting dirty.

how she

I

the horse himself. In his presence, the mare

and with Nicholas’s help, lifted

near her waist, keeping her

riding together. He

same way.

if I let myself remember, I could still feel

he’d said then. “Tell me when you are okay, and

a playful smile. “What if

I

up on horseback riding for today and return to one of our rooms instead. If

properly

if he was saying much the same thing to Lilliana, But, no. They didn’t seem to

much at all. Nicholas moved his hands away from her waist quickly and

did not seem to

her, out of all the

his horse, and

at the window.

realized, “He’s

what she was going to do, she shouted from the window,

She waved both arms.

up. Lilliana glowered, but

lifted a hand

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