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.

hurt me still, thinking upon it, so I had tried to push it to

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

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

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

that young, innocent girl

want,” I said, adding some bite to

and

along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll

and left me, then, walking out into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged as he was, but instead,

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him.

liked children.

wanted to hate him,

to my knees beside the couch where Elva

he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of us

was a

it wasn’t reality. My reality was very far

I needed to go home and look for another job,

I

the cushion. I was so drained,

my own

me Excuse

blinked open

beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest

my eye. “Wait,

already disappearing out of the

with

be quiet though, okay? No one

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my arms and camed

royal family was standing atop some type

his Luna on one side. The three

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

well and his voice camed far, like he was accustomed to

and gaining their attention “Congratulations

presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted over the coming

whispered something in the King’s

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