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

like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from

what he had become, brought all those

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but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been kind.

I wasn’t that young,

you want,” I said, adding some bite to my own voice.

a mistake, and

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

the parlor. I thought he might slam the door

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate

that door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of his misconceptions about me out

to hate him, but I

knees beside the couch

he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of us could have been a

was a nice

was very far from these golden fixtures and expensive

time, staying here. I needed to go home and

I

I was so

own eyes slid

me Excuse me,

open

pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you hurry

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

again, he was already disappearing out

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

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my arms and camed

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

The three princes flanked

he did on the bills in my purse.

camed far, like he was accustomed to

crowd and

We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted over the coming

whispered