The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 5

Nicholas held Elva safe and secure in his arms as he stood to his full height. Elva buried her face into the corner of his neck and shoulder. He gently patted her back.

He glanced down at Elva, his gaze so tender that it made my heart clench.

“There, there,” he whispered. “You are safe now.”

“Oh my God,” said one of the other girls in the room, fanning herself. “Of course he’s good with children.”

“Someone pinch me,” said another. “I think I’m dreaming.”

Nicholas’s soft expression hardened as he glared out at the rest of the room. “Whose child is this? Why is she here?”

I started forward, but the girl in the pink dress spoke before I could reach him.

“An outsider sneaked in, unless she’s a maid.”

Some of the other girls snickered at my expense.

“She can’t be a participant,” another girl fake-whispered, loud enough for half-the room to hear. “I thought we had to be virgins, and she’s got a kid.”

I wanted to disappear into a corner. Whether virgin or not, I was nothing compared to the rest of these girls.

My clothes weren’t as nice as theirs, and my figure wasn’t like what it had been at the Academy. I’d lost much of my musculature. I was skinny from too many nights of skipped dinners.

Elva’s wellbeing had always come before my own.

Her sake was the only reason I continued forward rather than hide in embarrassment. I stopped only when I reached Nicholas.

He looked at me, and I looked at him.

I’d forgotten how gorgeous his eyes were, golden brown with flakes of green. When we’d dated, I had spent hours looking at them, trying to memorize that color, but it had seemed different each time.

Before, when I’d stared long enough, I could earn a bashful smile from him. Now, his face was totally devoid of emotion. He looked at me like I was a stranger.

Did he… not recognize me?

had sealed me away in his past and moved

face. I could be a great

Maybe he hated me.

is the outsider.” The girl in pink motioned

monotone. Another moment of staring

I followed him. He led me

suit hurried toward him. “Your Royal Highness, please remember that per the selection rules, you aren’t to be alone with the contestants

to look at the man, who nervously

an exception,”

sir.” The man bowed

servant stepped forward and closed the door behind us, leaving Nicholas, Elva, and

be sick. I had never

even to say. What would he think of me, to see me as

ease against his chest. She must have cried herself to sleep, eyes closed and

at once, his perfect façade cracked. He frowned. His golden eyes filled

stayed gentle on Elva,

my child from me?” he

once, twice, but, no, I couldn’t make sense of what he

Eloquently, I said, “Huh?”

in his arms. She was three years old. That lined

so young then, too

where he was when he’d climaxed. But, hadn’t he been wearing a condom

but the certainty that fueled it seemed to slide into bewilderment. His gaze shifted, like he was

said, hoping to

so on television. For me to hide a child from him would have

name. But she’s not

before the anger returned tenfold.

to struggle to get

me and Elva. “She looks

twin sister. But I wouldn’t tell that to Nicholas. Elva was mine in every way that mattered. I would

answer some unspoken question for him, and he started to

straightened, startled. What could

arms, and he immediately

one of the plush couches in

mad at Mommy,”

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