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.

me still, thinking upon it, so I had tried to push it to the

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

and seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so

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

I wasn’t that young, innocent girl

some bite to my own voice. The hurt

is a mistake, and I intend to correct

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

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him.

door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind

to hate him, but

my knees beside the

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

a

reality was very far from these golden fixtures and

here. I needed to go home and look for another job, as soon as

I

on the cushion. I was so drained, from the

own eyes slid

Excuse me,

open

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

the sleep from my eye. “Wait,

was already disappearing out of the room. He left

watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time for

smile. It is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No one can talk when the

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my arms and camed

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

one side. The three princes flanked his

older than he did on the bills in my purse. He was pale with hollowed out cheeks,

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

crowd and

by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted over the coming

in and whispered something in the King’s

here in a moment. I would now ask that only