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

for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from the pain of his

brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome

+15 BONUS

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

wasn’t that young,

whatever you want,” I said, adding some bite to my own voice. The hurt made

a mistake, and I intend

the only woman who ever dared to break

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate

children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take

wanted to hate him, but I

my knees beside the couch

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

was a

was very far from these golden fixtures and expensive

time, staying here. I needed to go home and look for another job, as soon as

I

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

own eyes

Excuse

open my

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

sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s been

he was already disappearing out

on the couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time for

We have to be quiet though, okay?

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my

standing atop some type of stage

side. The three princes flanked his

in my

himself well and his voice camed far,

he said, calming the crowd and gaining

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

and whispered something in the King’s