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

on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract

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

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help but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been kind. Maybe I had been

that young,

whatever you want,” I said, adding some bite to my own voice.

is a mistake, and I intend to

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

I thought he might slam the door behind him,

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him.

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

wanted to hate him,

sunk to my knees beside

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

was a nice

reality was very far

here. I needed to go home and look for

I

beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was so

own eyes slid

me Excuse me,

open

but the King Luna, and

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

he was already disappearing out of the

Elva sat up on the couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time for

be quiet though, okay?

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and camed

in the parlor, the royal family was standing atop

side. The three princes flanked his other

did on the bills in my purse. He was pale with hollowed out

his voice camed far, like he

and gaining

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

in and whispered something in

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