“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

focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I

seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard,

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if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been

wasn’t that young,

adding some bite to my own

mistake, and I

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 the

parlor. I thought he

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him.

he liked children. He’d been

hate him, but

my knees beside the

stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of us could have been a

a

My reality was very far from

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

I

my head beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was so drained,

quickly, my own

Excuse me,

open

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

uh.“I rubbed the sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s been

he was already disappearing out of the room. He left the

me with curious eyes.

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my

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

on one side. The three princes flanked

bills in my purse. He was pale with hollowed out cheeks,

himself well and his voice camed far,

crowd and gaining

very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted

Luna leaned in and whispered something

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