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

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

he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard, they stole my

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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

to my own voice. The hurt

and I intend

are the only woman who ever dared to break up

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate

be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of his

hate him, but I

beside

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

a nice

was very far from these golden

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

I

was so drained, from the trip, from seeing

my own eyes slid

me Excuse me,

open

miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you hurry

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

again, he was already disappearing out

on the couch, watching me with curious eyes.

We have to be quiet though, okay? No one can

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my

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

The three princes flanked his other

bills in my purse. He was pale with

voice camed far, like he

crowd and gaining their

this monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted over

and whispered something in

a moment.