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

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

become, brought all those

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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 too

I wasn’t that

adding some bite to my

is a mistake, and I intend to

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

out into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged as he

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate

slammed that door. He 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

to hate him, but I

knees beside the couch where Elva

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

was a nice

My reality was very far from these

needed to go home

I

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

my own eyes slid

Excuse me,

open my

official hovered over me. I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived,

sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s

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

the couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time for

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my arms and

standing atop some type of stage The King stood

one side. The three princes flanked his other

the bills in my

his voice camed far, like

said, calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations

pleased by your presence

whispered something in the King’s