As Nicholas asked out Lilliana, I stood in the back of the crowd of watching girls, my heart down on the floor.
I had no right to be upset. I knew that. I had given up the right to be upset a long time ago.
Yet I couldn’t deny the feeling.
First, Nicholas had returned the handmade gift I made him, and now he was asking another girl on a solo date.
According to the rules of the competition, solo dates were only supposed to be awarded after a girl performed well in one of the events.
Of course, from what I’d heard, the rules also stated that a prince could ask any girl out at any time, so I supposed such a thing wasn’t unheard of.
But for it to be Nicholas who asked for the first solo date felt like the hardest pill to swallow.
I understood that the candidates were invited here to the
