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.

still, thinking upon it, so I had tried to

and caring for Elva, that I could successfully

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

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wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d

I wasn’t that young,

bite to

is a mistake, and I intend to

said, so coldly that a chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper.

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate

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

to hate

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

was a

reality was very far from these golden fixtures and

was wasting time, staying here. I needed to go home and look for another

I

on the cushion. I was so drained, from the

quickly, my own eyes slid

me Excuse

blinked open my

pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and

uh.“I rubbed the sleep from my

again, he was already disappearing out of

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

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my

royal family was standing atop some type of stage The

his Luna on one side. The three princes flanked his

than he did on the bills in my purse. He

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

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

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

whispered something in the

here in a moment. I would now ask that