The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 56

“Marry him, then.” She nodded, like it was decided. Like it was somehow that easy.

I hated disappointing her. I wished I could let her believe what she wanted.

“I’m sorry, Elva. But Prince Nicholas and I won’t ever be a couple. No matter what.”

She looked up at me with large, vulnerable eyes. “Not ever?”

I shook my head.

“But why?”

Because I broke his heart? Because he thought I had betrayed him? Because he’d returned the gift I’d

made him? Because he was a prince, and I was just a wolf–less waitress?

There were so many reasons. All of which felt like too much information for my small daughter.

“We’re just not meant to be,” I said.

Elva had a grasp of fairy tales and happily ever after. Even if she couldn’t understand everything, she

might be able to handle this much.

She must have, because her questions stopped. But then she started to cry.

“But I like him, Mommy,” she said, wiping at her eyes. “If you married him, then he would be my Dad.”

I hated more than anything to disappoint her, but what could I do? I couldn’t lie to her about this, not to

then have to reveal the truth like it was all some cruel joke.

Soon, I would be eliminated from the competition. I’d had a good showing tonight, but that didn’t mean !

knew I’d be the first to leave,

Elva and I would be forced to leave. From then

to being reclusive. In

pretend like our future held any hope of

even as

said, and pulled Elva

arms around my neck and cried into

her back to soothe her. “We’ll be okay.

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had ended and Elva fell asleep in my arms, I carried her back to our

left us for the night, but the quiet maid stayed nearby, as if

for me to finish

I motioned the

get some rest” I said: “I don’t need anything

I hadn’t forgotten the apparent betrayal of my maids, who surely knew bout the Queen’s rules

gave you the wrong gloves,”

blinked at

in my hand. “Those are not the gloves I made for you. I don’t know where those came from, or why they

have traveled fast in the servants‘ corridors. It

have to be careful, Miss Piper,” the quiet maid said. “I don’t know why the other maid

“I

don’t think

“No”

meant to sabotage me. But why?

one to

quiet maid glanced around, like an eavesdropper might be listening at the door. “Someone might be out to

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