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

caring for Elva,

all those feelings crashing back into Tome so

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if I was misremembering the past.

I wasn’t that young, innocent

said, adding some bite to

a mistake, and I intend

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

room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind

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 to Elva. He didn’t take any

to hate him,

my knees beside the

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

a nice

wasn’t reality. My reality was very far from these golden

here. I needed to go home and

I

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

quickly, my own eyes slid

me Excuse

open my

I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest

uh.“I rubbed the sleep from my

disappearing out of the room. He left the door

the couch, watching me with

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my arms and

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

Luna on one side. The three princes flanked

on the bills in my purse. He was pale with hollowed out cheeks,

far, like he was accustomed

and gaining their

very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more

Luna leaned in and whispered something

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