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

brought all those feelings

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now that I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been

I wasn’t that

some bite to my own

and I

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

walking out into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate

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

hate him, but

to my knees beside the couch

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

was a

was very far

needed to go home and

I

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

own eyes slid

Excuse

open my

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

from my eye. “Wait,

already disappearing out

Elva sat up on the couch, watching me with curious eyes.

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my arms and

standing atop some type of stage The King stood at the

one side. The three princes flanked

bills in my purse. He was pale with

voice camed far, like he was accustomed to public

calming the crowd and gaining

presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted

Luna leaned in and whispered

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