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.

do. It hurt me still, thinking upon it,

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

all those feelings crashing back

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

I wasn’t that young, innocent girl

to my own

is a mistake, and I intend to

chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow the same mistake to happen

sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged as he

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

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 his misconceptions about me out

to hate him, but I

beside the couch where Elva

maybe he would have revealed his secret in time.

was a

My reality was very far from these golden

wasting time, staying here. I needed to go

I

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

my own

Excuse

open

hovered over me. I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have

rubbed the sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s been a

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 for more pretty

have to be quiet though, okay? No one

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my arms and camed her

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

side. The three princes flanked

bills in my purse.

and his voice camed far, like he was

said, calming the crowd and

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

leaned in and whispered something in the

an introductory conference here in a