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

for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from the

what he had become, brought all those

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

wasn’t that young,

adding some bite to my own voice. The hurt

and I intend to

so coldly that a chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared

out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged as he was, but

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him. So

a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children.

wanted to hate him, but

sunk to my knees beside

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

a

reality. My reality was very far

wasting time, staying here. I needed to go home and look for another job,

I

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

my own eyes slid

Excuse me,

blinked open my

over me. I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes

sleep from my eye.

up again, he was already disappearing out of the room.

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

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my arms and

family was standing atop some type of stage The King stood

Luna on one side. The three princes flanked

than he did on the bills in my purse. He

voice camed far, like he was

calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations

presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted over the coming

whispered