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

focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract

brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard, they

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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 I had been

wasn’t that young, innocent

bite to my own voice.

is a mistake, and I intend to

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

out into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate

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

knees beside the

together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of us could have

was a nice

My reality was very far

needed to go home

I

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

quickly, my own eyes

Excuse me,

open

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

from my eye. “Wait,

disappearing out of the room. He left

with curious eyes. “Is it time for

be

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my arms and camed her

parlor, the royal family was standing atop some type

one side. The three princes flanked his other

did on the bills in my purse. He

his voice camed far, like he was accustomed to public

the crowd and gaining their

your presence and look forward

in and whispered something in the King’s