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.

me still, thinking upon it, so I had

many other things to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could

and seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing

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

I wasn’t that young,

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

is a mistake, and I intend to correct

only woman who ever dared to

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him. So

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

wanted to hate him, but

my knees beside

If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time.

was a nice

My reality was very

was wasting time, staying here. I needed to go home

I

rested my head beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was so drained,

quickly, my own eyes slid

Excuse me,

open

your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you hurry to the parlor at

my eye. “Wait, there’s

looked up again, he was already disappearing out of

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

gave her my softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though, okay?

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and

standing atop some type of stage The King

his Luna on one side. The

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

voice camed far,

calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on having

for this monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted over

and whispered something in the King’s

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