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.

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

and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract

and seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing

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

wasn’t that young, innocent girl

adding some bite to my own voice. The hurt

mistake, and I intend to correct

“You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll

parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him,

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him. So

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

hate him, but

to my knees beside the couch

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

was a nice

was very far from these golden fixtures and

go home and look

I

on the cushion. I was so drained, from the trip, from seeing

quickly, my own eyes slid

me Excuse

open

King Luna, and princes have arrived, I

the sleep from my

looked up again, he was already disappearing out of the room. He

the couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is it

softest smile. It is. We have to be

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my arms and camed

standing atop some type of stage The King stood

Luna on one side. The three princes flanked

the bills in my purse. He was pale

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

he said, calming the crowd and gaining

very pleased by your presence and

whispered something in the

in a moment.