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.

something I wanted to do. It hurt me still, thinking upon it, so I had tried to push

caring for Elva,

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

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was so different now that I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering

wasn’t that young, innocent girl

to my own voice. The hurt made

and

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

the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate

children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of his

to hate him, but I

my knees beside the couch where Elva

would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of us could have been

was a

was very far

was wasting time, staying here. I needed to go home and look for another job, as soon

I

on the cushion. I was so

my own

Excuse me,

open my

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

rubbed the sleep from my eye.

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

watching me with

be quiet though, okay? No one can talk when

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my

standing atop some type

his Luna on one side. The three princes flanked his

looked older than he did on the bills in my purse. He was pale with hollowed out cheeks,

camed far, like he was

calming the crowd and gaining their

We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted over the

whispered something in

here in a