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.

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

work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from

seeing what he had become, brought all

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couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering

that young, innocent

you want,” I said, adding some bite to my own voice. The hurt made it easier.

a mistake, and I intend to

ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to

and left me, then, 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, he gently

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him. So

he hadn’t 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,

knees beside the couch

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

was a

reality was very

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

I

cushion. I was so drained, from

quickly, my own eyes

Excuse me,

open my

miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I

uh.“I rubbed the sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s been a

I looked up again, he was already disappearing out of

with

gave her my softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No one can

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my arms and

family was standing atop some type of stage

Luna on one side. The three princes

the bills in my purse. He

far, like he was

and gaining their attention

by your presence and look forward

Luna leaned in and whispered

in a moment.