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.

with 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

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

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

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misremembering the

I wasn’t that young, innocent

to my

is a mistake, and

my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate

children. He’d been kind to

hate

my knees beside

a different world, maybe Elva would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time.

a

reality. My reality was very far

go home and look

I

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

own eyes slid

me Excuse me,

blinked open my

your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have

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

looked up again, he was already disappearing

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

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my

was standing atop some type of stage The

Luna on one side. The

bills in

far, like he

calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on having

this monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted over

Luna leaned in and whispered something in

an introductory conference here in a moment. I would