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 !

I’d be the first

leave. From then on, we’d only ever see the princes

being reclusive. In that

our future held any hope

as a

said, and pulled

around my neck

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

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

had thought the maids would have left us for the night,

for me to finish

bed, and Elva sleeping within it, I motioned the maid closer to

I said: “I don’t need anything

forgotten the apparent betrayal of my maids, who surely knew bout the Queen’s

wrong gloves,”

blinked at her.

I’d scrunched up in my hand. “Those are not the gloves I made for you. I don’t know where those came from, or why they exist. I swear to you that I made

lecturing from the Queen must have traveled fast in the servants‘ corridors. It likely wouldn’t take long until the entire palace knew of what

Piper,” the quiet maid said. “I don’t know why

“I

think so,”

“No”

other maid had purposefully meant to

to be the first one to go

might be listening at the door.

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