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

on like work, and caring for Elva, that I

what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard, they stole my

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that I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the past.

I wasn’t that young,

want,” I said, adding some bite to my own

mistake, and I intend to

who ever dared to break up with

I thought he

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate him. So

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

wanted to hate him,

knees beside the couch

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

was a

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

staying here. I needed to go home and

I

the cushion. I was so drained, from the trip, from seeing Nicholas again,

my own

Excuse me,

open

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

rubbed the sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s been a

already disappearing out of the room. He left the

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

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms

was standing atop

Luna on one side. The three princes

bills in my purse. He was pale with hollowed out

himself well and his voice camed far, like he was accustomed to public

crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on

this monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to

in and whispered something in