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

so many other things to focus on like work, and caring for

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

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that I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been kind.

that young, innocent girl

some bite to my

is a mistake, and I intend

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

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate him. So

bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to

to hate him,

beside the

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

was a

reality was very far

wasting time, staying here. I needed to go home and look for

I

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

my own eyes slid

Excuse me,

open my

your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you hurry to the

uh.“I rubbed the sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s been a

he was already disappearing out of

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

have to be quiet though, okay? No one can talk

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my arms

parlor, the royal family was standing atop some type of stage

his Luna on one side. The three

older than he did on the bills in

camed far, like

crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations

pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted over the

Luna leaned in and whispered something in