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.

him had never been something I wanted to do. It hurt me still, thinking upon it, so I had tried to push it to the back

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

him now and seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back

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that I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe

wasn’t that young, innocent

adding some bite to my

is a mistake, and I intend to

so coldly that 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 same

turned and left me, then, walking out into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him,

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him. So

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

hate him, but

my knees beside the couch where Elva

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

a nice

very far from these

time, staying here. I needed to go home

I

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

quickly, my own

me Excuse me,

blinked open

I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and

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

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

me with curious

smile. It is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No one can talk when

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and

the parlor, the royal family was standing atop some

on one side. The three

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

camed far,

said, calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on having

your presence and look forward to becoming

in and whispered something in the

course. We will be conducting an introductory conference here in a