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

to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I

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

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

that young, innocent girl

I said, adding some bite to my

is a mistake, and I intend to

woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll

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.

hate

might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of his misconceptions about me out on

to hate

knees beside

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 happy little

a nice

My reality was very far from these

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

I

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

my own

me Excuse

open

King Luna, and princes have arrived,

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

disappearing

on the couch, watching me with curious

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my arms and camed her

in the parlor, the royal family was standing atop some type

his Luna on one side. The three princes flanked his

older than he did on the bills in my purse. He was pale with hollowed

voice camed far, like he was accustomed

calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on having

by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted

leaned in and whispered something