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!”

into his arms and spun

so happy in her life. I could have cried bittersweet

she would lose

tackle him down to

the sidelines, “Do you need assistance,

pointed at him. “Ah, there! A new monster approaches, even more harrowing

kids immediately took to the new game, running

distracted, Nicholas rolled up off the ground and walked to me

his pants, but the back of his shirt was

I asked, motioning

“Is it bad?”

back to me.

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

everything had felt just like it

well. His posture shifted, straightening.

head back soon,”

soon as

but could

to our reality. A prince

between us, too large

back together,”

“Thank you.”

we sat mostly in silence. Elva slept soundly, having worn herself out with play.

into Nicholas’s side, with his arm wrapped