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

work, and caring for Elva, that I could

seeing what he had become, brought all

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so different now that I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the past.

wasn’t that young, innocent girl

bite to my own

and I intend to

that a chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him.

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

to hate him,

beside the

maybe Elva would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time.

was a

was very far from

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

I

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

own eyes

Excuse me,

blinked open my

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

rubbed the sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s been

again, he was already disappearing out of the

on the couch, watching me with curious eyes.

be

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my

parlor, the royal family was standing atop some type of

his Luna on one side. The

he did on the bills in my purse. He was pale with

and his voice camed far, like he was accustomed to

crowd and gaining

presence and look

Luna leaned in and whispered something in

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