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

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

seeing what he had become, brought all

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misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been kind. Maybe I had been too naïve

wasn’t that

whatever you want,” I said, adding some bite to

mistake, and I

that a chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper.

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him.

cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been

hate him,

my knees beside the couch where

we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the

was a nice

was very far from these golden fixtures and expensive

to go home

I

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

my own eyes slid

Excuse

blinked open my

the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest

sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s

was already disappearing out of the room. He left the

sat up on the couch, watching me with

to be quiet though, okay? No one

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my arms and

parlor, the royal family was standing atop some type

The

older than he did on the bills in

and his voice camed far, like he was accustomed

and gaining their attention

presence

leaned in and whispered something in the King’s

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