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, so I had tried to push it to

work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself

what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into

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

I wasn’t that young, innocent

bite to my

and I

woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow the same mistake to

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him. So

door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d

to hate him,

my knees beside the couch

we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in

a

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

was wasting time, staying here. I needed to go home

I

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

own eyes

me Excuse

blinked open my

your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you hurry to the

my

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

me with curious eyes. “Is it time for more pretty

be quiet though, okay? No one can talk when the King

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my arms and camed her

the royal family was standing atop some type of

one side. The

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

and his voice camed far, like he was

calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on

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

in and whispered something in the King’s

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