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 changed, sure, but not enough to become unrecognizable. Unless he truly had sealed me away in his past and
great embarrassment to him, showing up here, years after leaving him, and
Maybe he hated me.
is the outsider.” The girl in pink motioned
was monotone. Another moment of staring at me blankly, then he turned and walked
so I followed him. He led me
hurried toward him. “Your Royal Highness, please remember
man, who nervously backed up a
is an exception,”
course, sir.” The man bowed twice as he
them. A servant stepped forward and closed the door behind us, leaving
I might be sick. I had never imagined I’d meet Nicholas again,
he think of me, to see me
must have cried
once, his perfect façade
on Elva, his arm looped more protectively around
hide my
of my thoughts skidded to a stop. I blinked once, twice,
Eloquently, I said, “Huh?”
his arms. She was three years old. That lined up
recall the memory. We’d been so young then, too eager and
both finished in clumsy haste. I couldn’t remember where he was when he’d climaxed. But, hadn’t he been
it seemed to slide into bewilderment.
mistaken,” I said, hoping to give him
child from him
That’s her name.
before the
he wanted to say, he seemed to struggle
glanced between me and
twin sister. But I wouldn’t tell that to Nicholas. Elva was mine in every way that mattered. I
some unspoken question for him, and he started
straightened, startled. What could cause
and he immediately
gently, he lowered Elva down onto one of the plush couches
mad at Mommy,”
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The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story Chapter 5
The Luna Choosing Game Chapter 5