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 to

From then on, we’d only ever see

back to being reclusive. In that case, we wouldn’t even see

future held any hope of

as a

sorry,” I said, and pulled Elva

my neck and cried

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

would have left us for the night, but

for me to finish

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

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

the apparent betrayal of my maids, who surely knew bout the Queen’s rules for glove–length and had not

the wrong gloves,”

blinked at her.

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

the Queen must have traveled fast in the servants‘ corridors. It likely wouldn’t take long until

“I don’t know why the other maid gave you the wrong gloves. Maybe it

“I

think

“No”

to sabotage

be the first one to go

like an eavesdropper might be listening at the door. “Someone might be out to harm

ran up my

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