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

seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into

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

I wasn’t that young, innocent

said, adding some bite to my

a mistake, and I intend

woman who ever dared to break up with me.

turned 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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate him. So

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

hate

sunk to my knees beside the couch where Elva

world, maybe Elva would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his

a

wasn’t reality. My reality was very far from these

needed to go

I

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

own eyes slid

me Excuse

blinked open

official hovered over me. I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you

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

again, he was already disappearing out of the room.

me with curious eyes. “Is it time for more

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my

the royal family was standing atop some type of

The three princes flanked his other

bills in my purse.

well and his voice camed far,

calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations

monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and look

whispered something in