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?
but not enough to become unrecognizable. Unless he truly had sealed me
was simply pretending, to save face. I could be a great
Maybe he hated me.
The girl in pink motioned to
his voice was monotone. Another
so I followed him. He led me to an adjoining room,
official-looking man in a suit hurried toward him. “Your Royal Highness, please remember that per the selection rules, you aren’t
look at the man, who nervously backed up
an
sir.” The
into the room. I went inside after them. A servant stepped forward and closed the door behind us,
I might be sick. I had never imagined I’d meet
see me as I was? To see me
seemed at ease against his chest. She must have cried herself
and at once, his perfect
on Elva,
my child
thoughts skidded to a stop. I blinked once, twice, but, no, I couldn’t make sense
Eloquently, I said, “Huh?”
was three
to recall the memory. We’d been so young then, too eager
clumsy haste. I couldn’t remember where he was when he’d climaxed. But, hadn’t he been wearing a condom
anger, but the certainty that fueled it seemed to slide into bewilderment. His gaze shifted, like
hoping to give
For me to hide a child from him would have been a cruelty. He
her name.
a moment, before the anger returned
seemed to struggle to get
between me and Elva. “She looks
to Nicholas. Elva was mine in every
silence seemed to answer some unspoken question for him,
startled. What could
stirred his arms, and he immediately cut off the
down onto one
be mad at Mommy,” came
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The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story Chapter 5
The Luna Choosing Game Chapter 5