The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 116

I forced myself to my feet. The tailor, after making sure I was upright and unharmed, immediately rushed from the room to retrieve a towel and a servant to clean the mess.

My soggy notes were beginning to fall apart in my hands, to wet to even maintain their paper shape.

“Linda,” I said, going to her.

She scrunched her nose as I came close, as if the very sight of me disgusted her. I was disheveled now, true, with my gown damp in some places and my hair a mess. But even so…

“Can I have those names again?” I asked. I knew she had written them down same as me.

She quickly hid her notepad from my sight. “If you lost those names, then this is on you, Piper. You need

to learn to take responsibility.” She narrowed her eyes. “We wouldn’t want anyone to think you had unfair

advantage.”

“It’s not like that,” I said.

She continued on, like I hadn’t said anything. “At least half of our table will look good, and the royal

tell who did which half.”

goes against the spirit of the event,” I said. “We’re supposed to work together.

Luna is supposed

You are a hindrance, not an

by me and out the door. The other girls all shunned me, except for Susie, who

sympathetic wave.

at the fabrics left strewn at the place where we had been, but we’d tried on

upon. I tried

very least, I could guess about Linda’s preferences, after

knowledge, maybe I could at least make a compatible half

were maybe correct, I rushed down to the kitchen to look through the cookbooks again.

when one of the King’s

to stand in audience with the

It wasn’t the servant’s fault that I was maybe about to die.

I doubted I

in defiance, and decided to face my inevitable end. I only hoped Nicholas could hear of it and

the winding hallways

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