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.

still, thinking upon it, so I

things to focus on like work, and caring for Elva,

become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard, they

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couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been kind. Maybe I had been

that

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

mistake, and I intend to

that a 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

left me, then, walking out into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate him. So

might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva.

wanted to hate him,

to my knees beside the couch where

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

was a nice

it wasn’t reality. My reality was very far from these golden

to go home and look for another job, as

I

on the cushion. I was so drained,

my own

me Excuse me,

open

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

my eye. “Wait, there’s been a

already disappearing out of the

with curious eyes. “Is it time for more pretty

gave her my softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No one

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my arms and camed

standing atop some type of

one side. The three princes

than he did on the bills in my

well and his voice camed far, like he was

he said, calming the crowd and gaining their attention

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

whispered something in the King’s

a moment. I would