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

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

become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so

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now that I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been kind. Maybe

that young, innocent

adding some bite to my own voice. The hurt made it easier.

a mistake, and I

along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate him. So

be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children.

hate

beside the couch where

world, maybe Elva would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have

a

it wasn’t reality. My reality was very far

to go home and look

I

I was so drained, from the trip, from seeing

my own eyes

Excuse me,

open my

me. I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna,

sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s been a

was already disappearing out of the

the couch, watching me with curious eyes.

be quiet though, okay? No one can talk

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my arms

in the parlor, the royal family was standing atop some type of stage The

on one side. The three princes

bills in my

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

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

presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted over the

leaned in and whispered something in the

We will be conducting an introductory conference here in a moment. I would now ask that only selected ladies stay to