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

work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract

he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so

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I was misremembering the past.

I wasn’t that

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

and I intend

are the only woman who ever dared to break

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate

be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d

wanted to hate him, but I

my knees beside

had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in

a

reality. My reality was very

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

I

cushion. I was

own

me Excuse

blinked open

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

from my eye. “Wait,

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

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

gave her my softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No one

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my arms

the royal family was standing atop some type of stage The

Luna on one side. The

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

camed far, like he was accustomed to

calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations

pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more

in and whispered something in the King’s