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.

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

for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from

all those

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different now that I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d

I wasn’t that

you want,” I said, adding some bite to

a mistake, and I

so coldly that a chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow 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.

to hate

he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He

wanted to hate

my knees beside the couch where Elva

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

a

very far from these golden

needed to go

I

was so drained,

own eyes slid

me Excuse

blinked open my

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

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

was already disappearing out of the room. He left the

Elva sat up on the couch, watching me with

smile. It is. We have to be quiet though,

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my arms and

standing atop some type of stage

his Luna on one side. The three princes flanked his other

King looked older than he did on the bills in my purse.

well and his voice camed far, like he was

crowd and

by your presence and look forward to becoming more

and whispered

a moment. I would