“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

seeing what he had become, brought all

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misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never

wasn’t that young, innocent

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

a mistake, and I intend to

are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper.

I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged as he was, but instead,

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate

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

wanted to hate him, but

my knees beside the

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

was a

reality. My reality was very far from these golden fixtures and expensive

needed to go home and look

I

my head beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was

own eyes

me Excuse me,

blinked open my

official hovered over me. I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you hurry to the parlor

rubbed the sleep from my eye. “Wait,

he was already disappearing out of the room.

couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time

softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though,

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my arms and camed her

standing atop some

his Luna on one side. The three princes flanked his other

bills in

far, like he was

calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on having

pleased by your presence and look forward

whispered

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