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.

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

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

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

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I was misremembering the past. Maybe

wasn’t that

bite to my own voice. The

mistake, and I

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

parlor. I

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him.

he hadn’t slammed that door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind

wanted to hate

knees beside the couch where Elva

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

a nice

My reality was very far from these

to go home and look

I

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

quickly, my own

me Excuse me,

open my

miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest

uh.“I rubbed the sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s

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

me with curious eyes. “Is it

be quiet though, okay? No one can

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and

was standing atop

The three princes flanked his

King looked older than he did on the bills in my purse.

voice camed far, like

said, calming the crowd and

pleased by your presence

Luna leaned in and whispered

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