The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 6

“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

to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully

him now and seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings

+15 BONUS

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

wasn’t that

want,” I said, adding some bite to

is a mistake, and I intend

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

into the parlor. I thought

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate

slammed that door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t

wanted to hate

beside the couch where Elva

Elva would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three

a nice

was very far

staying here. I needed to go home and look for another

I

cushion. I was so drained, from the trip, from seeing Nicholas again,

own eyes slid

Excuse me,

open my

beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna,

sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s been a

disappearing out of the room. He

with curious eyes. “Is it time for more

is. We have to be

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my arms and camed

atop

The three princes flanked

did on the bills in my

voice camed far,

calming the crowd and

presence and look forward to becoming more

Luna leaned in and whispered something in the King’s

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255