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

things to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract

all those feelings

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

that

bite to

is a mistake, and I intend to correct

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

walking out into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him. So

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

wanted to hate him, but

sunk to my knees beside

we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of us could have been a

a

was very far from these golden fixtures and

needed to go home

I

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

my own eyes

Excuse

open

me. I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and

from my eye. “Wait, there’s

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

me with curious eyes. “Is it time for more

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my arms and camed

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

his Luna on one side. The three princes flanked his

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

voice camed far, like he was accustomed

crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on

are very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more

in and whispered something in the