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.

hurt me still, thinking upon it, so I had tried to push it to the back of

like work, and caring for Elva,

had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard, they stole my breath

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

wasn’t that

bite to my

and

only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never

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 him.

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

hate him, but

sunk to my knees beside

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

was a

reality. My reality was very far from these golden fixtures and expensive

was wasting time, staying here. I needed to go home and look for another job, as soon as

I

I was so drained, from the trip,

own eyes slid

Excuse

blinked open

King Luna, and

rubbed the sleep from my eye.

already disappearing out of the

watching me with curious eyes. “Is it

It is. We have to be

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my arms and

the royal family was standing atop

one side. The three princes flanked

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

and his voice camed far,

he said, calming the crowd and gaining

by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted

leaned in and whispered something in the

introductory conference here in a moment. I would now ask that only selected ladies