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.

him had never been something I wanted to do. It hurt me still,

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

he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into

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was misremembering the past.

I wasn’t that young,

to my own voice. The hurt made it easier.

a mistake, and I

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

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him. So

door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He

hate him,

beside

he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the

a nice

reality was very far from these golden

to go home and look for

I

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

my own eyes slid

Excuse me,

open

nervous official hovered over me. I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have

sleep from my

I looked up again, he was already disappearing out of the

with curious eyes. “Is it

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my arms and camed her

parlor, the royal family was standing atop some

Luna on one side. The three princes

did on the bills in

and his voice camed far, like he

calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations

presence and look forward to becoming

whispered

be conducting an introductory conference here in a moment. I would now ask that only