The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 5

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?

unrecognizable. Unless he truly had sealed me away

I could be a great embarrassment to him,

Maybe he hated me.

outsider.” The girl in pink motioned

said, and even his voice was monotone. Another moment of staring at me blankly, then he turned and

so I followed him. He led me

a suit hurried toward him. “Your Royal Highness, please remember that per the selection rules, you aren’t to be alone

man,

is an

The man bowed twice as he

stepped forward and closed the door

had never imagined I’d

would he think of me, to see me as I

She must have cried herself to sleep, eyes closed

once, his perfect façade

on Elva, his arm looped

you hide my child from me?” he

once, twice, but, no, I couldn’t make sense of what

Eloquently, I said, “Huh?”

arms. She was three years

tried to recall the memory. We’d been so young

both finished in clumsy haste. I couldn’t remember where he was when he’d climaxed. But,

seemed to slide into bewilderment.

hoping to

hide a child from him would have been a cruelty. He would likely

her name. But she’s

before the anger

say, he seemed to struggle to

glanced between me and Elva. “She looks like

tell that to Nicholas. Elva was mine in every way that mattered. I would not have her seen

silence seemed to answer some unspoken question for him, and he

startled. What could cause that

his arms, and he immediately cut off the

down onto one of the plush couches in the

at Mommy,”

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