The Luna Choosing Game

“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 Elva, that I could successfully

what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into

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

I wasn’t that

some bite to my own voice. The hurt

is a mistake, and I intend

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

the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him. So

He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to

hate him,

beside

a different world, maybe Elva would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time.

a

it wasn’t reality. My reality was very far from

staying here. I needed to go home

I

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

my own

me Excuse

blinked open my

King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you hurry to

my

again, he was already disappearing out of the room. He left

couch, watching me with

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my arms and

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

one side. The three princes flanked his

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

and his voice camed far, like he

crowd and gaining their

event. We are very pleased by your presence and

Luna leaned in and whispered something in the