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

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

brought all those feelings

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was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d

that young,

want,” I said, adding some bite to my own voice. The hurt made it

and I intend to

are the only woman who ever dared to break up with

I thought he might slam the door

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate him.

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

to hate him, but

to my knees beside the couch where Elva

he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three

a nice

very far from these golden

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

I

Elva’s on the cushion. I was so drained, from

my own eyes

me Excuse me,

open

beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes

the sleep from my eye. “Wait,

disappearing out of the room. He left the

couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is

have to be quiet though, okay? No one

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my arms and camed

the parlor, the royal family was standing atop some type of stage The King

side. The three princes

King looked older than he did on the bills in my purse. He was pale with hollowed out cheeks, but

his voice camed far, like he was accustomed to

calming the crowd and

very pleased by your presence and look

whispered something

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