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

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

brought all those feelings crashing back into

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misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been kind. Maybe I

I wasn’t that young, innocent

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

is a mistake, and I

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

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate

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

wanted to hate him, but I

to my knees beside

If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his

a nice

My reality was very far from these golden fixtures

to go home and

I

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

my own eyes slid

Excuse

open my

the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you

my

he was already disappearing out of the room. He left the

sat up on the couch, watching me with

It is. We have to be quiet though, okay?

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my arms

family was standing atop some type of stage The King stood at the

side. The three princes flanked

on the bills in my purse. He

camed far, like he was accustomed

he said, calming the crowd and

We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to

whispered

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