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

for Elva, that I

what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back

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

that

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

mistake, and

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

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate

he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take

wanted to hate him, but

beside the couch where

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

was a nice

was very far from

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

I

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

quickly, my own eyes slid

me Excuse me,

blinked open

over me. I beg your pardon, miss, but the King

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

was already disappearing out of the

watching me with curious

is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No one can

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my

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

his Luna on one side. The three princes

King looked older than he did on the bills in my purse. He

his voice camed far, like he was

calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on

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

leaned in and whispered something in the

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