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.

me still, thinking upon it, so I had tried

so many other things to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully

all

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if I was misremembering the past. Maybe

that young,

bite to my own

is a 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 the

and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him. So

but he liked children.

to hate

my knees beside the

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

a

reality. My reality was very

here. I needed to go home and

I

was so drained, from the trip,

quickly, my own

Excuse

blinked open my

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

my eye. “Wait,

disappearing

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

We have to be quiet though, okay? No one can talk when

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my arms and camed her

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

side. The three

he did on the bills in my purse. He was

and his voice camed far, like he was accustomed to public

and

very pleased by your presence and look

in and whispered something

conducting an introductory conference here in a moment. I would now ask that only selected ladies stay to

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