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.

him had never been something I wanted to do. It hurt me still, thinking upon it, so I had tried to push it to the back

many other things to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from the

with him now and seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard, they

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but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been

that young, innocent

I said, adding some bite to my own

a mistake, and I intend to correct

the only woman who ever dared to break up with

walking out into 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,

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate

liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of his

hate

sunk to my knees beside

our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of

a nice

was very far from these golden fixtures and expensive

needed to go home and look for another

I

head beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was so drained, from

own

Excuse me,

blinked open my

I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you

rubbed the sleep from my

already disappearing

couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time for more

It is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and camed

parlor, the royal family was standing atop some type of

one side. The three princes flanked

looked older than he did on the bills in my

and his voice camed far, like he

he said, calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on

monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and look

in and whispered something

course. We will be conducting an introductory conference here in a moment. I would now ask