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

many other things to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from the

faced with him now and seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back

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

wasn’t that young, innocent girl

said, adding some bite to my own voice. The

and I intend to

Nicholas said, so coldly that a chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever

sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him.

he hadn’t slammed that door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He

hate

to my knees beside the couch where Elva

world, maybe Elva would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of us could have been a

was a

very far from

to go home

I

I rested my head beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was so drained, from the trip, from

own eyes slid

me Excuse me,

open

but the King Luna, and

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

already disappearing out of the

sat up on the couch, watching me with curious eyes.

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and

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

side. The three princes

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

well and his voice camed far, like he was

the crowd and gaining

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

whispered something