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?
changed, sure, but not enough to become unrecognizable. Unless he truly had sealed me away in his past and moved on, never once looking
I could be a great embarrassment to him, showing up here, years after leaving him,
Maybe he hated me.
outsider.” The girl in pink motioned to
voice was monotone. Another
held Elva, so I followed him. He led
Highness, please remember that per the selection
to look at the man, who
an exception,”
Of course, sir.” The man bowed twice as
servant stepped forward and closed the door behind us, leaving Nicholas, Elva, and I alone in a small
might be sick. I had never
he think of me, to see me as I was?
have cried herself to sleep, eyes closed and drooling.
once, his perfect façade cracked. He frowned. His
stayed gentle on Elva,
my child
to a stop. I blinked once, twice, but, no, I couldn’t make sense of
Eloquently, I said, “Huh?”
was three years
the memory. We’d been so
was when he’d climaxed. But, hadn’t he been wearing a
to slide into bewilderment. His gaze shifted, like
mistaken,” I said, hoping to give
He’d even said so on television. For me to hide a child from him would have been a cruelty.
her name. But she’s not
moment, before the anger returned
to say, he seemed to struggle to get it out.
me and
that to Nicholas. Elva was mine in every way that mattered. I would not have her seen as
silence seemed to answer some unspoken question for him,
What could cause
and he immediately cut off the
he lowered Elva down onto one of
mad at Mommy,” came Elva’s quiet
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The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story Chapter 5
The Luna Choosing Game Chapter 5