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

all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard, they

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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 I had been too naïve

that young,

want,” I said, adding some bite to my own voice. The

and I

“You are the only woman who ever dared

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him.

insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of his misconceptions about me out

hate

to my knees beside

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

a

wasn’t reality. My reality was very far

to go home and look for another job, as

I

Elva’s on the cushion. I was so drained, from the trip, from seeing Nicholas again,

own eyes slid

me Excuse me,

open

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

from my

already disappearing out

up on the couch, watching me with curious

softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though, okay?

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and

standing atop some type of stage The

Luna on one side. The

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

camed far, like he was accustomed to public

and gaining

for this monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to

and whispered

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