“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

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

he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back

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

that young, innocent

to

mistake, and I

Nicholas said, so 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 allow

walking out into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him.

door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children.

wanted to hate

knees beside the couch

a different world, maybe Elva would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have

was a nice

very far from

go home and look

I

on the cushion. I was so drained, from

own eyes

Excuse

open my

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

the sleep from my

he was already disappearing out

me with

her my softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No one can talk when

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my arms and

the parlor, the royal family was standing atop some type of stage The King stood at

on one side. The three princes

did on the bills in my purse. He was pale

voice camed far, like he was accustomed to public

and gaining their attention “Congratulations on having

are very pleased by your presence

whispered something in the King’s

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