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.

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

caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from the pain of

what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard, they stole

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I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the

I wasn’t that young, innocent

to my

is a mistake, and I

the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow the

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him. So

He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of his misconceptions about me out on

wanted to hate him,

beside

Elva would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in

was a nice

was very far

wasting time, staying here. I needed to go home and look for another

I

on the cushion. I was so drained, from the trip,

my own

me Excuse

blinked open

your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived,

sleep from my eye.

I looked up again, he was already disappearing out of the room. He left the door

couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time

be quiet though, okay? No one can talk when the King

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my

standing atop some type of stage The

Luna on one side. The three princes flanked

did on the bills in

himself well and his voice camed far, like he was accustomed to

the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on

for this monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and look forward

in and whispered something in

course. We will be conducting an introductory conference here in a moment. I would now ask that