“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

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

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

that young, innocent

said, adding some bite to my own voice. The hurt made it

is a mistake, and I intend to

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 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.

a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any

hate him,

knees beside the

we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the

a

was very far

go home and look for another

I

I was so drained, from

own

me Excuse

open

your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and

from my

I looked up again, he was already disappearing

watching me with curious eyes. “Is

It is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No one

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my arms and

parlor, the royal family was standing atop

Luna on one side. The three princes flanked

King looked older than he did on the bills in my purse. He

his voice camed far,

said, calming the crowd and gaining their

by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted over

leaned in and whispered

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