“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

on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from

all those feelings

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

that young,

some bite to my own voice.

mistake, and

my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow the same

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.

to hate him.

liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of his misconceptions about me

to hate him, but I

knees beside

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

was a nice

wasn’t reality. My reality was very far

time, staying here. I needed to go home and look for another job, as soon as

I

Elva’s on the cushion. I was so drained, from the trip, from

own

Excuse me,

blinked open my

but the King Luna,

sleep from my

he was already disappearing out of the room. He left

Elva sat up on the couch, watching me with

be quiet though, okay? No one

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and

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

The

he did on the bills in my purse. He

and his voice camed far, like he

and gaining their attention “Congratulations on

are very pleased by your presence and look forward

in and whispered something in the King’s

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