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, that I could successfully distract myself from the pain of

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

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

wasn’t that

to my own voice. The hurt

and I intend to

woman who

I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged as he was, but

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him. So

but he liked children. He’d been kind

to hate him,

beside the

maybe Elva would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of us could have been a happy little

was a nice

was very far from these golden

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

I

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

my own eyes slid

me Excuse

open

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

uh.“I rubbed the sleep from my eye.

disappearing out of the room. He

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

gave her my softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though,

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my arms and camed her

was standing atop some type of stage The King stood

Luna on one side. The

did on the bills in my purse. He

his voice camed far, like he was accustomed to public

the crowd and gaining their attention

presence and look

and whispered something

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