The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 46

They both nodded, finally in agreement.

They removed the dress they had been working on and added it to the scrap pile.

“What are you doing with that?” I hurried to the discarded dress.

“It’s all wrong,” the talkative maid said. “The color’s too dark, and it’s not shapely enough. We can do

better.”

“Don’t throw it out.” I held the dress protectively to my chest.

They both looked at me. “Why not?”

“It’s beautiful, and you both worked so hard on it. Let me keep it. I don’t have to wear it to the First Ball, but I’d like to wear it at some point.”

They glanced at each other.

“It’s up to you, Miss Piper,” the talkative maid said. “Everything in here is a gift to you. If you would like to keep it, that’s your decision.”

I smiled, relieved. I really didn’t want such a beautiful gown to go to waste. I went to the closet and hung it inside.

it, hanging among the other beautiful gowns,

The scary guards are

I rushed out of the closet. Elva followed, but I

door while the other two

anything!” the maid called

Elva’s hand, keeping her safely

is the meaning

the door, stepped forward. “Apologies, ma’am, but

true, Miss Piper,

says she didn’t do it, and I believe her,” I

seemed sympathetic, despite his harsh words. “It’s not up to you,

investigated.”

You don’t

each grabbed one of the maid’s

me. “She’ll

take someone away without knowing for sure they

fault.”

if it is on palace grounds. These are palace affairs. I’m sorry, ma’am, but this is just how