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

for Elva, that I could successfully

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

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

wasn’t that

bite to my own

and

my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow the same mistake to happen

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him.

insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take

to hate him, but I

sunk to my knees beside

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

was a

was very far from these

here. I needed to go home and

I

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

my own

Excuse

blinked open my

your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I

uh.“I rubbed the sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s

again, he was already disappearing out of the

with curious

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my

family was standing atop some

The three princes

older than he did on the bills in my

far, like he was

he said, calming the crowd and

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

Luna leaned in and whispered something in the

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