“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

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

had become, brought all

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

that

some bite to my own

a mistake, and

said, so coldly that a chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up

into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him. So

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

to hate

my knees beside

a different world, maybe Elva would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed

a nice

was very

to go home and look for another job, as soon as

I

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

my own

Excuse me,

blinked open

King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest

rubbed the sleep from my eye.

he was already disappearing out of the room. He

watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time

gave her my softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No one can talk when the King

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and camed

atop

on one side. The three princes flanked his

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

himself well and his voice camed far,

calming the crowd and gaining their

We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to

and whispered something

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