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

other things to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully

all those feelings crashing back into Tome so

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

I wasn’t that young, innocent girl

adding some bite to my own voice. The

and I intend

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

the parlor. I thought he might slam the

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him.

he hadn’t slammed that door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind

wanted to hate him, but I

my knees beside the couch where

would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the

a nice

very

go home and look for another job, as soon as

I

was so drained,

my own eyes

me Excuse me,

open

miss, but the King Luna, and princes

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

was already disappearing out

with

be quiet

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my arms and camed

in the parlor, the royal family was standing atop some type of stage

Luna on one side. The three princes flanked his other

on the bills in

himself well and his voice camed far, like

the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on having

by your presence and look forward

Luna leaned in and whispered something in the

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