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

and caring for

all those feelings crashing back into

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I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d

I wasn’t that young, innocent

said, adding some bite to my own voice. The hurt made it

mistake, and I intend to

my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with

me, then, walking out into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate him.

door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva.

wanted to hate

my knees beside the couch where Elva

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

a nice

reality. My reality was very far from these golden fixtures

needed to go home and look for

I

I was so drained, from the trip, from seeing

my own eyes

me Excuse

blinked open my

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

my

disappearing out of the room. He

watching me with curious eyes.

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and camed

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

one side. The three princes

he did on the bills in my purse. He was pale

voice camed far, like he

the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on having

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

whispered something in the

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