“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.

Breaking up with him had never been something I wanted to do. It hurt me still, thinking upon it, so I had tried to push it to the back of my thoughts

work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from the pain of

he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into

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different now that I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the

wasn’t that young,

I said, adding some bite to

is a mistake, and I intend

the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll

out into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him,

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him.

a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva.

wanted to hate

sunk to my knees beside the

stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret

a

it wasn’t reality. My reality was very far

staying here. I needed to go home and

I

the cushion. I was so drained, from

own eyes slid

me Excuse

blinked open my

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

the sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s

again, he was already disappearing out of the room.

Elva sat up on the couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is

be quiet

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my arms and camed

was standing atop some type

The three princes flanked

bills in my purse. He was

well and his voice camed far, like he

calming the crowd and

very pleased by your presence and look forward

whispered something in

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