The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0006

“How long did you wait, Piper? A week? Two? It couldn’t have been long.”

He sounds like he’s jealous. Or was that an illusion? He doesn’t care about me and is just mad at me.

Maybe the latter is more logical.

His dark eyes burned into me, leaving my heart in scorched tatters. Never in a thousand years would i

have thought Nicholas would be so vicious to me.

“It wasn’t like that.” I said, to try to defend myself.

He crossed his hands over his chest. He wasn’t going to listen to me,

“Why even come here?” he asked me.

“My application was selected…”

“Why even apply? Were you trying to get to me?”

“No,” I said.

“Maybe you regret your child’s father. Maybe you want me back.” He laughed once, bitterly. “Like you

have a chance.”

The words sliced into me as surely as if he’d been holding a knife. He had changed since I’d known him.

Three w

years ago, he’d been kind and patient. I’d given him my heart and he’d gently cradled it. So many

nights, we’d laid under the stars, trading kisses and stories.

Once, when he’d spent all night looking at me, I had told him, “You’re missing the

starlight.”

He’d replied, “I can see it in your eyes.”

The man before me now was nothing like the one I had known. The man here was arrogant, indifferent. and imposing in how he carried himself.

something I wanted to do. It hurt me still, thinking upon it, so I had tried to push it to the

caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from the

had become, brought all those feelings crashing back

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help but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been kind. Maybe I had been too

I wasn’t that young, innocent girl

to my own voice. The hurt made

a mistake, and I intend

coldly that a chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with

me, then, walking out into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him.

a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of his misconceptions about me out

hate him, but

sunk to my knees beside the couch where Elva

he would have revealed his secret

was a nice

very far

was wasting time, staying here. I needed to go home and look

I

rested my head beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was so drained, from the trip, from seeing Nicholas again, from…

own

Excuse

open my

nervous official hovered over me. I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest

uh.“I rubbed the sleep from my eye.

already disappearing out of

couch, watching me with

my softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms

royal family was standing atop some type of stage The King stood at the

one side. The three

did on the bills in my purse. He

camed far, like

crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on

by your presence and look forward

and whispered something in the King’s

here in a moment. I would now ask that