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

on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could

he had become, brought all those feelings

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

wasn’t that young, innocent girl

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

mistake, and I intend to

ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow the

out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged as he was, but instead, he gently closed

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him.

might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to

wanted to hate him, but I

knees beside the couch where

a different 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

was a nice

was very

wasting time, staying here. I needed to go home and look

I

was so drained,

own eyes

me Excuse me,

blinked open my

the King Luna, and

from my eye. “Wait, there’s been

again, he was already disappearing out of the room. He left

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

to be quiet

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my arms and

the royal family was standing atop some

one side. The three princes flanked his other

looked older than he did on the bills in my purse.

and his voice camed far, like he was accustomed to

the crowd and gaining their attention

your presence and look forward to

in and whispered something in the