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

on like work, and caring for Elva, that I

had become, brought all those feelings crashing back

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different now that I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d

that young, innocent girl

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

and I

ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up

out into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate

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

to hate him, but I

beside

maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of

a

it wasn’t reality. My reality was very far from these golden fixtures

wasting time, staying here. I needed to go home and

I

head beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was

own eyes

me Excuse me,

open my

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

rubbed the sleep from my eye.

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

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

smile. It is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No one can talk

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my

family was standing atop some

Luna on one side. The three princes flanked

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

his voice camed far, like he was

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

by your presence and look forward to

leaned in and whispered something

an introductory conference here in a moment.