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!”

up into his arms and spun her around, while

never heard her so happy in her life. I could have cried bittersweet tears, so happy that she

sad she would

kids tackle him

the sidelines, “Do you need assistance,

there! A new monster approaches, even more

the new game, running and play–fighting

Nicholas rolled up off the ground and walked to me near the

much of the grass debris from his pants, but the back

asked, motioning to his

“Is it bad?”

make promises,” he teased, then turned his back to me. I brushed away the grass

what I had just

felt just like it had three

His

head back

soon as we could. It was

once but could never have

our reality. A prince

too large to

ride back together,” Nicholas

“Thank you.”

in silence. Elva slept soundly, having worn herself

into Nicholas’s side, with his arm wrapped protectively