No, that was a foolish notion. He was kind to Elva because he was a kind person. At the end of the day, Elva and I were going to be eliminated from the competition.

We’d leave the palace, return to our little apartment with Anna, and never hear from Nicholas again, We’d probably see him on television sometimes, with updates on his new family.

It might hurt to see, but that was life.

Dreams were dreams. Reality was reality.

I couldn’t have both.

“It’s so nice of Prince Nicholas to spend so much time with you and your daughter,” said one of the other girls to me

“Looks good for the cameras, too,” said another girl, pointing as a cameraman came close to Elva.

Odd, I hadn’t really noticed them before.

Neither, apparently, had Nicholas. Because the moment he spotted the camera following Elva, he swung her the other way, out of the camera’s line of sight.

“You don’t think he’s doing it just for show?” said the first girl.

just shows off a side of him people

a publicity stunt. But even so, Nicholas was not the type of

are enjoying yourself too, Piper. We all know you’ll

be gone soon as well as anyone, but it still hurt to hear

guards headed

staring. True enough, a pair of guards was weaving their way through the

do you think they

them to go

“Miss Piper one asked

whispered one of

that’s me.” I told

me with blank expressions. These must

me. I wondered what happened to the ones who had initially been kind to

Follow me

of the guards began to walk away. The other waited for

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