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.

up with him had never been something I wanted to do. It hurt me still, thinking upon it,

focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could

had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into

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help but wonder if I was misremembering

I wasn’t that young, innocent

bite to my own voice. The hurt

is a mistake, and

woman who ever dared to

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, he gently

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate

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

hate him, but

beside

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

a

wasn’t reality. My reality was very

staying here. I needed to go home and

I

beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was so drained, from the trip,

my own eyes slid

Excuse me,

blinked open

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

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

looked up again, he was already disappearing out of

with curious eyes.

have to be quiet though, okay? No one can

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my arms and camed her

family was standing atop some type of stage

The

King looked older than he did on the bills in my

himself well and his voice camed far, like he

he said, calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations

your presence and

whispered

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