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

things to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from

what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing

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

that

to my own voice. The

and

Nicholas said, so coldly that a chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll

into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him.

he hadn’t slammed that door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any

wanted to hate

beside the couch where Elva

would have revealed his secret

was a

reality was very far from these

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

I

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

own

me Excuse

open my

over me. I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you hurry to the parlor at

the sleep from my eye. “Wait,

disappearing out of the room. He left the door

Elva sat up on the couch, watching me with curious

have to be quiet though,

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my arms and

the royal family was standing atop some type of stage The King stood

side. The three princes

King looked older than he did on the bills in

far, like he was accustomed to public

he said, calming the crowd and gaining their

pleased by your presence

and whispered something in the