The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0425

Chapter 0425

My wolf cowered inside of me, hurt crashing in on all sides. Rejection. It seeped into every pore and every bone.

I knew I shouldn’t feel that way. Nicholas was pragmatic and cautious. He wouldn’t want to have a baby out of wedlock with anyone, even me.

But my wolf’s reaction is visceral, as if I had been directly rejected by my

mate.

It took every sliver of willpower I had to keep from whimpering and pulling myself into the fetal position. I bury it all down deep, right there alongside

dream I secretly held of making a family with Nicholas.

any

When he glanced at me again, he found me just as closed off as he was.

Slowly, I began to slink out of bed.

“Piper? Where are you going?” He sat up in the bed, watching me as I gathered my clothing off the ground and shimmied back into them.

“I’m going to head back to my room.”

A bit of hurt flashed through his eyes. I tried to ignore it.

“You can stay here the night. Sneak back in the morning,” he said.

“It’s safer if I go now,” I said.

Safer for who? That was the question left unanswered. My heart was already cracking. If I stayed, it might implode into dust.

I slipped out of Nicholas’s room, thinking I might find comfort in the solitude of the hallway. Instead, I only felt emptier somehow.

The walk back to my room felt even longer than usual, and I wasn’t even particularly careful. It was by pure luck that I returned to my room without being seen.

At rehearsals the next day, I avoided Nicholas as much as possible. It was difficult to do with Elva in tow. I wouldn’t deny Elva from spending time with her Nick–lass, even when I’d rather not see him. So I wasn’t terribly shocked when five seconds into entering the ballroom, Elva made a B–line straight for Nicholas.

“Nick–lass!”

my little girl. “Elva.” He kneeled down to hug her. Over her

title. I hadn’t done that in some time. His

schooled it back into a warm smile, when Elva

him.

be in the

“It’s a very

do it

I think we can get Bridget to help show you. If that’s okay with your mom?” Nicholas looked

I’d rather keep Elva far, far away from Bridget. But that was

done.

no actress. I wasn’t even a movie

real life honest–to–goodness

fully completed now, to where Bridget waited. Bridget seemed so excited to see Elva, that they immediately hugged like old

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lonely heart ached. They looked like a family up

Nicholas held the other. Together, they hed her to her starting spot, then walked with her across the stage, showing her the route

energetic and she was making Elva laugh and smile. Elva was

sunk down to my stomach.

walked up while I was so enamored with the others on the stage, I wasn’t

said, shaking it off. “I didn’t sleep

hear about your exploits with my brother.”

because of that,” I said. Though, in hindsight, I really didn’t need to clarify

why couldn’t you sleep?”

just a little. I didn’t want to talk about it, not even with him. I wasn’t

rejection too

a family. He just didn’t want it

myself, Nicholas was just being careful. If I got pregnant, the entire royal house of cards could come tumbling down. It wasn’t

Mark and Susie. We couldn’t just run away together. Nicholas would never turn away

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