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.

had never been something I wanted to do. It hurt me still, thinking upon it, so I had tried to push it to the back of

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

now and seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard, they stole

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that I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been kind. Maybe I

that young,

want,” I said, adding some bite to my

a mistake, and I intend to

the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow the same

I thought he might

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him.

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

wanted to hate him, but

my knees beside the couch where Elva

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. My reality was very far from these golden

I needed to go home and look for

I

rested my head beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was so drained, from the trip,

quickly, my own

Excuse

open my

nervous official hovered over me. I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you hurry to

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

already disappearing

the couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is it

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my arms and

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

on one side. The three princes flanked his

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

himself well and his voice camed far, like he was

crowd and gaining

pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted over the

and whispered something

conference here in a moment.