Chapter 0246

For too long, I watched Nicholas across the room, as he greeted a benefactor and then introduced

Olivia. As it wasn’t Lilliana’s turn with the benefactor, she had been asked to stand back. She glared at

Olivia behind Nicholas’s back.

Nicholas turned on the charisma for the elderly benefactor. Olivia, beside him, did the same. They looked like a matching pair, working together to charm the benefactor. With the way the benefactor

blushed and smiled, it was clearly working.

I didn’t want to hate Olivia. Compared to Linda and some of the others, she had never physically done me or Elva harm. But watching the way she kept touching Nicholas’s arm… Or how she smiled at him… Or

once, she winked….

My heart had emotions all its own that had little to do with logic or reason. My heart hated Olivia out of sheer jealousy. She had closeness to Nicholas now. She could smile and laugh and flirt, and might even

be successful.

I imagined Nicholas choosing Olivia as his Luna and my gut squeezed tight. She was a good choice.

She’d make a respectable Luna.

didn’t want her to marry Nicholas. I didn’t want

Except me.

foolish notion. One I had

one for me, but I would never be the one for Nicholas. I had to accept that

for both our

said, mumbling the words against my shoulder. “Can I go to bed

shouldn’t leave. But my heart was sore and lonely, and

sick again. Her exhaustion

honey. Let’s go back to our room.” At the very least, I

her in Mark’s care and hurry

Elva out of the ballroom. The guards at the

twice.

at the gala, and the servants likely enjoying their

the gala

Though typically, I would have Julian or Nicholas at

my skin seeing another woman standing in a purple, shimmering gown at the

made of the fabric that Jane had

her face. My breath

The woman was Jane.

stopped walking, feet planted

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