The Luna Choosing Game
Chapter 5
Nicholas held Elva safe and secure in his arms as he stood to his full height. Elva buried her face into the corner of his neck and shoulder. He gently patted her back.
He glanced down at Elva, his gaze so tender that it made my heart clench.
“There, there,” he whispered. “You are safe now.”
“Oh my God,” said one of the other girls in the room, fanning herself. “Of course he’s good with children.”
“Someone pinch me,” said another. “I think I’m dreaming.”
Nicholas’s soft expression hardened as he glared out at the rest of the room. “Whose child is this? Why is she here?”
I started forward, but the girl in the pink dress spoke before I could reach him.
“An outsider sneaked in, unless she’s a maid.”
Some of the other girls snickered at my expense.
“She can’t be a participant,” another girl fake-whispered, loud enough for half-the room to hear. “I thought we had to be virgins, and she’s got a kid.”
I wanted to disappear into a corner. Whether virgin or not, I was nothing compared to the rest of these girls.
My clothes weren’t as nice as theirs, and my figure wasn’t like what it had been at the Academy. I’d lost much of my musculature. I was skinny from too many nights of skipped dinners.
Elva’s wellbeing had always come before my own.
Her sake was the only reason I continued forward rather than hide in embarrassment. I stopped only when I reached Nicholas.
He looked at me, and I looked at him.
I’d forgotten how gorgeous his eyes were, golden brown with flakes of green. When we’d dated, I had spent hours looking at them, trying to memorize that color, but it had seemed different each time.
Before, when I’d stared long enough, I could earn a bashful smile from him. Now, his face was totally devoid of emotion. He looked at me like I was a stranger.
Did he… not recognize me?
I had changed, sure, but not enough to become unrecognizable. Unless he truly had sealed me away in his past and moved on, never once looking back.
he was simply pretending, to save face. I could be a great embarrassment to him, showing up here, years after leaving him, and
Maybe he hated me.
the outsider.” The girl in pink motioned
Nicholas said, and even his voice was monotone. Another moment of staring at me blankly, then he turned and
held Elva, so I followed him. He led me to an adjoining room, separated by a
remember that per the selection rules, you aren’t to be alone with the contestants
stopped to look at the man, who nervously
is an exception,”
sir. Of course, sir.” The man bowed twice as he
the room. I went inside after them. A servant stepped forward and closed the door behind us,
churned. I thought I might be sick. I had never imagined I’d meet
to see me
who seemed at ease against his chest. She must have cried herself to sleep, eyes closed and drooling. She seemed at
his perfect façade cracked. He frowned. His golden eyes filled with
stayed gentle on Elva, his arm looped more protectively
dare you hide my child from
thoughts skidded to a stop. I blinked once, twice, but, no, I couldn’t make
Eloquently, I said, “Huh?”
was three years old. That lined up with our breakup
the memory. We’d been so young then,
where he was when
retained its anger, but the certainty that fueled it seemed to slide into bewilderment.
said, hoping to give
children. He’d even said so on television. For me to hide a child from him would have been a cruelty. He would
That’s her name. But
moment, before the anger
he wanted to say, he seemed to struggle
and Elva. “She
sister. But I wouldn’t tell that to Nicholas. Elva was mine in every way that mattered. I would
answer some unspoken question for him, and he started to
startled. What could
immediately cut off the deep
onto one of the plush couches in
mad at Mommy,” came Elva’s quiet
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