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.

that even with my slight

didn’t mean I wouldn’t

maids and I had split the design for my dress into three separate parts that we had

Now, we were ready to combine the three elements into a

already finished Elva’s matching

doing the final work, as

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

the window, likely the horses again,

I

wasn’t sure why, I kept thinking about Nicholas’s solo date, but it shouldn’t

I were

length of the room, nervousness and trepidation waging war

called to

for the distraction, I joined her at the

toward

entrance of the stables as horses were

hands.

was a regal black stallion that greedily accepted

chosen for Lilliana was a brown and white mare that

trying to sidestep whenever Lilliana came too

noticing. left his own horse to approach Lilliana. He offered her

shook her head, refusing to

some mumbled voices, but with the way Lilliana held up

ing dirty.

getting dirty.

how she would hold the

I

cube to the horse himself.

with Nicholas’s help, lifted herself up into the

hands lingered near her waist, keeping her

horseback riding together. He had helped me then, much

same way.

myself remember, I could still feel the phantom touch of his strong hands on

fall,” he’d said then. “Tell

“What if

I

should give up on horseback riding for today and return to

properly

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

Nicholas moved his hands away

a distance, these two did not

had chosen her, out of all the candidates, for his first solo

alongside his horse,

at the window.

realized, “He’s

she was going to do, she shouted from the

She waved both arms.

glowered, but Nicholas’s stern expression seemed to

hand

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