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

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

he had become, brought all those feelings crashing

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

wasn’t that young, innocent

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

and I

are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never

I thought he might slam

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate

he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t

hate him, but

beside

would have

was a nice

My reality was very far from

needed to go home and look for another

I

was so drained, from the trip, from seeing Nicholas again,

quickly, my own eyes

Excuse me,

open

but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you hurry to the parlor

my eye. “Wait, there’s been

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

watching me with curious eyes. “Is

is. We have to be quiet though, okay?

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms

standing atop some type of stage The King stood at the

on one side. The three princes flanked his other

than he did on the bills in my purse. He was

camed far, like he was accustomed

he said, calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on

your presence and look forward to becoming

whispered something in the

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