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.

hurt me still,

focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that

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

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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 had been

I wasn’t that young,

bite to my own voice. The hurt

and I

the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him. So

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

wanted to hate

my knees beside the

he would have revealed

a

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

was wasting time, staying here. I needed to go

I

on the cushion. I was so drained, from the trip, from seeing

quickly, my own eyes slid

me Excuse me,

open my

but the King Luna, and princes have arrived,

rubbed the sleep from my eye. “Wait,

again, he was already disappearing out

watching me with curious

have to be

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my

was standing atop some type of stage The King stood

Luna on one side. The

he did on the bills in

voice camed far,

said, calming the crowd and gaining

this monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted over the

whispered something in

will be conducting an introductory conference here in a moment.