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.

do. It hurt me still, thinking upon it, so I had tried to push it to the back

and caring for Elva, that I could

faced with him now and seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing

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I was misremembering the past.

I wasn’t that young,

bite to my own voice. The hurt

and I intend to correct

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

I thought he might slam

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate him. So

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

hate him,

my knees beside the couch

maybe Elva would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three

a nice

was very far from these golden fixtures

go home and look for another

I

I rested my head beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was

my own

Excuse me,

open

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

the sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s

looked up again, he was already disappearing out of the room. He left the

on the couch, watching me with

have to be quiet though,

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms

the parlor, the royal family was standing atop some

Luna on one side. The

on the bills in my purse.

himself well and his voice camed far, like he

the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on

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

whispered something in the

an introductory conference here in a moment. I would now ask that only selected ladies