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

to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I

him now and seeing what he had become, brought all those

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

that young, innocent girl

said, adding some bite to my own voice. The hurt

mistake, and I

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

the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged as he was, but instead, he gently closed

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate

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

wanted to hate him,

sunk to my knees beside the couch where Elva

a 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

was a nice

My reality was very far from these golden

I needed to go home and look for another job,

I

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

quickly, my own eyes

me Excuse

open

but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you hurry to the parlor at

my eye. “Wait, there’s

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

Elva sat up on the couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time for more

have to be quiet though, okay? No one can talk

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my

family was standing atop some type of stage The King

on one side. The three princes flanked his other

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

well and his voice camed far, like he

calming the crowd and gaining their attention

pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more

and whispered