Nicholas held Elva safe and secure in his arms as he stood to his full height. Elva buried her face into the corner of his neck and shoulder. He gently patted her back.
He glanced down at Elva, his gaze so tender that it made my heart clench.
“There, there,” he whispered. “You are safe now.”
“Oh my God,” said one of the other girls in the room, fanning herself. “Of course he’s good with children.”
“Someone pinch me,” said another. “I think I’m dreaming.”
Nicholas’s soft expression hardened as he glared out at the rest of the room. “Whose child is this? Why is she here?”
I started forward, but the girl in the pink dress spoke before I could reach him.
“An outsider sneaked in, unless she’s a maid.”
Some of the other girls snickered at my expense.
“She can’t be a participant,” another girl fake-whispered, loud enough for half-the room to hear. “I thought we had to be virgins, and she’s got a kid.”
I wanted to disappear into a corner. Whether virgin or not, I was nothing compared to the rest of these girls.
My clothes weren’t as nice as theirs, and my figure wasn’t like what it had been at the Academy. I’d lost much of my musculature. I was skinny from too many nights of skipped dinners.
Elva’s wellbeing had always come before my own.
Her sake was the only reason I continued forward rather than hide in embarrassment. I stopped only when I reached Nicholas.
He looked at me, and I looked at him.
I’d forgotten how gorgeous his eyes were, golden brown with flakes of green. When we’d dated, I had spent hours looking at them, trying to memorize that color, but it had seemed different each time.
Before, when I’d stared long enough, I could earn a bashful smile from him. Now, his face was totally devoid of emotion. He looked at me like I was a stranger.
Did he… not recognize me?
become unrecognizable. Unless he truly had sealed me away in his past and moved on, never once
be a great embarrassment to
Maybe he hated me.
outsider.” The girl in pink motioned
said, and even his voice was monotone. Another moment of staring at
He led me to an
official-looking man in a suit hurried toward him. “Your Royal Highness, please remember that per
look at the man, who nervously backed
is an exception,”
The man bowed twice
stepped forward and closed the door behind us, leaving Nicholas, Elva, and I alone in a small
stomach churned. I thought I might be sick. I had never imagined I’d meet Nicholas
to see me as I was? To see me here, as part of the selection? And
who seemed at ease against his chest. She must have cried herself to sleep, eyes closed
Nicholas, and at once, his perfect façade cracked. He frowned. His golden eyes filled
Elva, his arm looped more protectively
hide my child from
I blinked once,
Eloquently, I said, “Huh?”
glanced at Elva, softly sleeping in his arms. She was three years old. That
to recall the memory. We’d been so young then,
finished in clumsy haste. I couldn’t remember where he was when he’d climaxed. But, hadn’t he been wearing a condom at the
its anger, but the certainty that fueled it seemed to slide into bewilderment. His gaze shifted, like he was trying
I said, hoping to
wanted children. He’d even said so on television. For me to hide a child from him would have been a cruelty. He
name.
a moment, before the anger
he seemed to struggle to get it out. He swallowed
me and Elva. “She looks like
to Nicholas. Elva was mine in every way that
some unspoken question for
startled. What could
arms, and he immediately cut off
lowered Elva down onto one
Mommy,” came
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The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story Chapter 5
The Luna Choosing Game Chapter 5