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?

truly had sealed me away in his past

was simply pretending, to save face. I could be a great embarrassment to him, showing up here, years after leaving

Maybe he hated me.

outsider.” The girl

even his voice was monotone. Another moment

followed him. He led me to an adjoining room, separated

please remember that per the selection rules,

look at the man, who nervously

is an exception,”

sir. Of course, sir.” The man bowed

them. A servant stepped forward and closed

be sick. I had never imagined

no idea what even to say. What would he think of me, to see me as I was? To

must have cried herself to sleep, eyes closed and drooling.

perfect façade cracked. He frowned.

on Elva, his

you hide my

my thoughts skidded to a stop. I blinked once, twice, but, no, I

Eloquently, I said, “Huh?”

three years old. That lined up with

We’d been so young then, too eager and

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

face retained its anger, but the certainty that fueled it seemed to slide into bewilderment.

said, hoping to give

to hide a child from him would have been a

That’s her name. But she’s not

moment, before the

he wanted to say, he seemed to struggle to get it out. He swallowed

glanced between me and Elva.

my identical twin sister. But I wouldn’t tell that to Nicholas. Elva was mine in every way that mattered. I would not have her seen as anything

question for him, and he started

What could cause that

stirred his arms, and he immediately cut off the deep

onto one of the plush

at Mommy,”

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