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 upon it, so I had

other things to focus on like work, and caring for

become, brought all those feelings

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

I wasn’t that young,

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

a mistake, and I intend to correct

who ever

me, then, walking out into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him,

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate

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

wanted to hate him, but I

beside the couch where Elva

world, maybe Elva 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 have been a happy little

was a

reality was very far from

needed to go

I

I was so drained, from the

my own eyes slid

me Excuse

open

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

my

looked up again, he was already disappearing out

with curious eyes. “Is it time for

We have to be quiet though, okay? No one can talk when the King

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my arms and camed her

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

on one side. The three princes flanked his other

older than he did on the bills in my purse. He was

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

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

very pleased by your presence and

and whispered something in the

We will be conducting an introductory conference here in a