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

work, and caring for

all those feelings

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

that young, innocent

bite to my own voice. The hurt made it easier.

a mistake, and I intend to correct

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 behind him, as enraged

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him. So

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

wanted to hate him, but I

my knees beside the

would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe

a nice

wasn’t reality. My reality was very far

needed to go home and

I

the cushion. I was so drained, from the trip, from seeing Nicholas again,

my own eyes

Excuse

blinked open

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

uh.“I rubbed the sleep from my eye. “Wait,

already disappearing out of the room. He left the door

couch, watching me with

her my softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No one can

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my

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

Luna on one side. The three princes

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

himself well and his voice camed far, like he was accustomed

crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on having

pleased by your presence

leaned in and whispered