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 from the

and seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing

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I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the past.

I wasn’t that young, innocent girl

bite to my own voice. The hurt made it

mistake, and

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

sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged as he was, but instead, he gently closed

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate him. So

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

hate

beside

different 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 happy

was a

very far

needed to go home and look for another job, as

I

was so drained, from the trip,

my own

me Excuse

open my

I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you hurry to the

uh.“I rubbed the sleep from my

again, he was already disappearing out of

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

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my arms

atop some type of stage The

on one side. The three

bills in my purse.

camed far,

calming the crowd and

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

whispered