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

to focus on like work, and caring for

brought all

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help but wonder if I was misremembering

I wasn’t that young, innocent

to

is a mistake, and

said, so coldly that a chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with

then out into the parlor. I thought he

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate him. So

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

wanted to hate him, but

to my knees beside the

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

a nice

wasn’t reality. My reality was very

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

I

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

own eyes

Excuse

open

hovered over me. I beg your pardon, miss, but the King

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

disappearing out of the room. He

the couch, watching me with curious

smile. It is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No one can talk when

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my

family was standing atop some

Luna on one side. The three

older than he did on the bills in my purse. He was pale with hollowed out cheeks, but

his voice camed far, like he was accustomed to public

the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations

by your presence and look forward to becoming more

and whispered something

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