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.

to do. It hurt me still, thinking upon it, so

and caring for Elva, that

and seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard,

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was so different now that I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering

I wasn’t that young, innocent

some bite to my own voice.

is a mistake, and

spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate

liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of his misconceptions about me

to hate him, but

my knees beside

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

was a nice

reality. My reality was very far from these golden

go home and

I

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

own eyes slid

me Excuse me,

open my

King Luna, and princes have arrived, I

my eye.

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

up on the couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is it

It is. We have to be

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my

family was standing atop some type of stage

side. The three princes

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

voice camed far,

and gaining their

very pleased by your presence and

and whispered something in the King’s

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