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.

still,

work, and caring for Elva, that

had become, brought all those feelings crashing

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different now that I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been

wasn’t that young, innocent girl

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

a mistake, and I

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

out 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 closed

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate

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

wanted to hate

beside the couch where

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

a nice

reality was very far from these

I needed to go home and look for another job, as

I

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

quickly, my own eyes

me Excuse me,

open my

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

the sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s

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

me with curious eyes. “Is it time for

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my arms

the parlor, the royal family was standing atop

his Luna on one side. The

bills in my purse. He was pale with

voice camed far, like he was accustomed

and gaining

by your presence and look forward to becoming more

whispered something in the

in a moment.