The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0067

If that partner was me, I would…

No. I shouldn’t go down that path, even within the safe confines of my mind.

Nicholas and I would never be together again. I had too many secrets that he would never understand. Even if he knew the truth, even if he’d understood, he’d never agree with the choices I had made.

If he knew what I’d given away, he would never look at me the same way.

When Elva appeared for her lunch, she shouted from across the room. “Nick–lass!” Then she ran through. the line, crawled under the table, and threw her arms out wide for a hug.

Nicholas leaned down to oblige. His smile was so warm, my chest ached.

If only Elva and I could have this all the time.

After lunch, and after Nicholas and I finished cleaning up, we joined the children out on the playground.

I pushed some of the kids on the swings, while Nicholas play–chased the children around the grassy lawn. He roared, pretending to be a monster. The children shouted with fake fear, broken with fits of

giggling.

Elva herself often broke the illusion by running up to Nicholas and demanding. “You’re not a monster.

You’re Nick–lass!”

his arms and spun her around,

so happy in her life. I could have cried bittersweet tears, so happy that she

she would lose

the kids tackle him

sidelines, “Do you need

at him. “Ah, there! A new

the new game, running and

off the ground and walked to

but the back

I?” I asked, motioning

“Is it bad?”

his back to me. I brushed away

did I realize the potential weight of what I had just done. I had touched him so casually.

had felt just

well. His

back soon,”

this fantasy as soon as we could. It was too

but could never

prince and a commoner, with a canyon of

too

can ride back

“Thank you.”

mostly in silence. Elva slept soundly, having worn herself out

Nicholas’s side, with his arm wrapped protectively