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 push

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

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

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

I wasn’t that

adding some bite to my own

mistake, and I

are the only woman who

walking out into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him. So

a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children.

to hate him,

knees beside the couch

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

a

reality. My reality was very far from these golden fixtures and expensive

I needed to go

I

the cushion. I was so drained,

my own eyes slid

Excuse

blinked open my

pardon, miss, but the King

my eye. “Wait,

was already disappearing out of the

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

softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my arms and camed

family was standing atop some type

one side. The three princes

in my

well and his voice camed far,

crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on

very pleased by your presence and look forward

in and whispered something in the

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