The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 6

“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 Elva,

seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into

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

that young, innocent

adding some bite to my own voice. The

is a mistake, and I intend

are the only woman who

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him.

but he liked children. He’d

hate

knees beside the

stayed together, maybe he would have revealed

a nice

wasn’t reality. My reality was very far

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

I

was so drained, from the trip, from seeing Nicholas again,

my own eyes slid

Excuse me,

blinked open

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

from my eye.

was already disappearing out of the room. He left

watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time for more

to be quiet though, okay? No one can talk when the King

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and camed

the royal family was standing atop some type of stage The King stood at the

Luna on one side. The

did on the bills in my purse. He

camed far, like he

he said, calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on having

for this monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence

whispered something

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