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.

had never been something I wanted to do. It hurt me still, thinking

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

had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard, they

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was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never

that

adding some bite to my own voice.

and I intend to

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

sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him.

insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any

wanted to hate

to my knees beside the couch where Elva

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

was a nice

reality was very far from these golden fixtures

I needed to go home and look for

I

cushion. I was so drained, from the

own eyes slid

Excuse me,

blinked open

the King

my eye. “Wait, there’s been a

disappearing out

on the couch, watching me with

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my

the parlor, the royal family was standing atop some type of stage

Luna on one side. The three princes flanked his

he did on the bills in my purse. He was

camed far, like he

calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations

monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming

Luna leaned in and whispered something

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