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.

him had never been something I wanted to do. It hurt me still, thinking upon it, so

work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully

had become, brought all those feelings

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now that I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been kind. Maybe I had

wasn’t that young,

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

is a mistake, and I intend to

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

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him.

He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been

to hate him,

my knees beside the couch

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

a nice

reality was very far from these

time, staying here. I needed to go home and look for

I

I rested my head beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was

own eyes slid

me Excuse

blinked open my

King Luna, and princes have arrived, I

sleep from my eye.

disappearing out of the room. He left the door

on the couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time for more pretty

to be quiet though, okay? No one can talk when the

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my arms and

atop some type

The

did on the bills in

and his voice camed far, like he was

said, calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations

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

in and whispered

in a moment. I would now