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

work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from the pain of his

he had become, brought all those feelings crashing

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

wasn’t that

said, adding some bite to my own voice. The hurt made it easier.

mistake, and I intend to correct

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

and left me, 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

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

hate him, but

knees beside the couch

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

very far from these golden fixtures

to go home and look for another job, as soon as

I

on the cushion. I was so

quickly, my own

Excuse

blinked open

nervous official hovered over me. I beg your pardon, miss, but the King

from my

looked up again, he was already disappearing

with curious eyes. “Is it time for more pretty

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my arms and camed

standing atop some type of stage The

The

in

far, like he was

calming the crowd and gaining their attention

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

whispered something