“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

work, and caring for Elva,

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

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was so different now that I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering

I wasn’t that young, innocent girl

bite to my

a mistake, and I

the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never

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, he gently

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him. So

liked children.

hate him,

beside

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

was a

reality. My reality was very far from these golden

go home and look for another job, as soon as

I

head beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was

quickly, my own eyes

Excuse me,

blinked open my

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

sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s

already disappearing out of the

Elva sat up on the couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is

gave her my softest smile. It is. We have to be

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my arms and camed her

family was standing atop some type of

his Luna on one side. The three princes

in my purse. He was pale with

camed far, like he was accustomed to

he said, calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on

very pleased by your presence and look forward to

in and whispered something in

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