The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0006

“How long did you wait, Piper? A week? Two? It couldn’t have been long.”

He sounds like he’s jealous. Or was that an illusion? He doesn’t care about me and is just mad at me.

Maybe the latter is more logical.

His dark eyes burned into me, leaving my heart in scorched tatters. Never in a thousand years would i

have thought Nicholas would be so vicious to me.

“It wasn’t like that.” I said, to try to defend myself.

He crossed his hands over his chest. He wasn’t going to listen to me,

“Why even come here?” he asked me.

“My application was selected…”

“Why even apply? Were you trying to get to me?”

“No,” I said.

“Maybe you regret your child’s father. Maybe you want me back.” He laughed once, bitterly. “Like you

have a chance.”

The words sliced into me as surely as if he’d been holding a knife. He had changed since I’d known him.

Three w

years ago, he’d been kind and patient. I’d given him my heart and he’d gently cradled it. So many

nights, we’d laid under the stars, trading kisses and stories.

Once, when he’d spent all night looking at me, I had told him, “You’re missing the

starlight.”

He’d replied, “I can see it in your eyes.”

The man before me now was nothing like the one I had known. The man here was arrogant, indifferent. and imposing in how he carried himself.

him had never been something I wanted to do. It hurt me still, thinking upon it, so I had tried to push it to

to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from the

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was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been kind. Maybe I had been too

I wasn’t that young, innocent girl

said, adding some bite to my own voice. The hurt made it easier.

mistake, and I intend

along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with

parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged as he was, but

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate

he hadn’t slammed that door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of

wanted to hate him, but

to my knees beside the

he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the

was a

very far from these golden fixtures

go home and look

I

I was so drained, from the trip, from seeing Nicholas again, from…

my own

me Excuse me,

blinked open my

miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest

the sleep from my

again, he was already disappearing

up on the couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time for more pretty

be quiet though, okay?

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my arms and camed

the royal family was standing atop some type of stage The King stood

side. The three princes flanked

older than he did on the bills in my purse. He was pale

and his voice camed far, like he was

said, calming the crowd and gaining

presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted over the coming

in and whispered something

conducting an introductory conference here in a moment. I would now