The Luna Choosing Game

“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

other things to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from

what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard, they

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misremembering the

that young, innocent girl

want,” I said, adding some bite to my

a mistake, and I intend to correct

are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow the same mistake to happen

left me, then, walking out into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him,

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him.

that door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t

wanted to hate him, but

beside the couch

maybe Elva would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret

was a nice

wasn’t reality. My reality was very far from these

to go home and look for

I

on the cushion. I was so drained, from the trip,

quickly, my own

me Excuse me,

blinked open

but the King

from my eye. “Wait, there’s

up again, he was already disappearing

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

have to be quiet though, okay? No one

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my

standing atop some type of stage The King stood at the

one side. The three princes flanked his other

older than he did on the bills in my purse. He was pale with

voice camed far,

calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on having

this monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted over the coming

Luna leaned in and whispered