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.

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

like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from the pain of his

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

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

wasn’t that young, innocent girl

to my own voice. The hurt made

mistake, and I

chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow the same mistake to

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him. So

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

to hate him,

knees beside the couch where

a different 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

a nice

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

here. I needed to go home and look for another job, as soon

I

was so drained, from the

own

Excuse

open my

King

from my eye. “Wait,

I looked up again, he was already disappearing out

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

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and

was standing atop some type of stage The King stood

The three princes flanked his other

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

monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and look

leaned in and whispered something in the King’s

introductory conference here in a moment. I would now ask that