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 I had tried to push it to the back

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

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

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

wasn’t that young,

whatever you want,” I said, adding some bite to my own

is a mistake, and I intend to

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

parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him. So

a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any

wanted to hate him, but

to my knees beside the

child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his

a

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

go home and

I

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

my own

me Excuse

blinked open my

the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you hurry to the parlor

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

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

watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time

softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though,

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my arms and camed her

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

side. The

the bills in my

far, like he was accustomed

crowd and gaining

very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming

Luna leaned in and whispered

will be conducting an introductory conference here in a moment. I would now