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,

caring for Elva, that

had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard, they stole my

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if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been kind. Maybe I had

wasn’t that young, innocent girl

some bite to my own voice. The hurt made it

and

said, so coldly that a chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow the same mistake to happen

the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged as he was, but instead, he gently closed

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate

slammed that door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of his misconceptions about

hate him, but

my knees beside the couch where

If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of us could have been a happy

was a

wasn’t reality. My reality was very far from these golden fixtures and expensive

I needed to go home

I

was so drained, from the

quickly, my own

Excuse me,

open

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

the sleep from my eye.

up again, he was already disappearing out of

the couch, watching me with curious eyes.

is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No one can talk

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my arms and camed her

atop some type of stage The King

one side. The three princes flanked his other

the bills in my purse. He

himself well and his voice camed far, like he was accustomed

calming the crowd and

for this monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to

and whispered

course. We will be conducting an introductory conference here in a moment.