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.

to do. It hurt me still, thinking upon it, so I

caring for Elva, that I could

with him now and seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings

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if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been kind. Maybe I had

wasn’t that young, innocent

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

is a mistake, and I intend

who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate him.

cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He

hate him, but I

knees beside the couch

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

a nice

was very far from

go

I

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

own eyes

me Excuse

blinked open my

miss, but the King Luna,

my eye. “Wait, there’s

up again, he was already disappearing out

up on the couch, watching me with curious

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and camed

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

one side. The three princes

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

and his voice camed far, like he was accustomed

and gaining their attention “Congratulations

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

whispered something in the

in a