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.

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

so many other things to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from

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

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I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering

that

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

is a mistake, and I

said, so coldly that a chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with

out into the parlor. I thought

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him. So

he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of his misconceptions about

hate him, but I

to my knees beside

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

was a nice

it wasn’t reality. My reality was very far from these golden

here. I needed to go home and look for another job, as soon as

I

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

own eyes

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.

he was already disappearing out of the room. He left the

watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time for more pretty

to be quiet though, okay? No

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my arms and camed her

in the parlor, the royal family was standing atop some

his Luna on one side. The three

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

voice camed far, like he was accustomed

the crowd and gaining their attention

for this monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and

in and whispered something in the

an introductory conference here in a moment. I would now ask that only selected ladies