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

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

what he had become, brought all those feelings

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

that young,

to my

a mistake, and I intend

the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him. So

a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of his

wanted to hate him, but

knees beside

our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have

a

reality. My reality was very far

I needed to go home and look for

I

the cushion. I was so

quickly, my own eyes

me Excuse me,

open my

King Luna,

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

disappearing out of the room. He

watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time for more

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my arms and

atop

on one side. The three princes flanked his

the bills in my purse. He was pale

far, like he was accustomed to public

crowd and

are very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted over the coming

Luna leaned in and whispered something

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