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

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

faced with him now and seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard, they stole my breath

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

that young,

to my own voice. The hurt

a mistake, and I intend

only woman who ever dared to break up with

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate

that door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of his misconceptions about me out on

wanted to hate

sunk to my knees beside the couch where

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

a nice

wasn’t reality. My reality was very

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

I

was so drained, from the trip, from seeing Nicholas

own eyes

me Excuse me,

open my

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

uh.“I rubbed the sleep from my

already disappearing out of the room. He left

watching me with curious eyes. “Is

her my softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No one can

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my

standing atop some type of stage

side. The

in my purse. He was pale with

well and his voice camed far, like he was accustomed to public

crowd and gaining

event. We are very pleased by your presence and look forward

in and whispered something in