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

and seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into

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

that

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

a mistake, and I intend to

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

parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him. So

insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of

wanted to hate him,

to my knees beside

together, maybe he would have revealed his secret

was a

wasn’t reality. My reality was very

staying here. I needed to go home and look for another job, as soon

I

Elva’s on the cushion. I was so

my own eyes slid

me Excuse me,

open my

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

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

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

watching me with curious

We have to be quiet

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my arms and camed

standing atop some type of stage The King stood at

The three princes flanked

the bills in my purse. He was

camed far, like he was

calming the crowd and gaining

event. We are very pleased by your presence and look

and whispered something in