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

and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from the

become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard, they

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

wasn’t that young,

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

is a mistake, and

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

into the parlor. I thought he might slam the

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him.

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

wanted to hate him,

sunk to my knees beside the

child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of us

was a nice

very far from these golden fixtures

here. I needed to go home and look

I

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

own eyes

me Excuse me,

blinked open

the King Luna, and princes have arrived,

sleep from my eye.

he was already disappearing

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

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my arms and camed

standing atop some type of stage The King stood at the

his Luna on one side. The three princes flanked his other

King looked older than he did on the bills in my

camed far,

he said, calming the crowd and gaining their attention

by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted

leaned in and whispered

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