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

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

now and seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome

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

that

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

and

the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow

I thought he might slam the door behind him,

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate him. So

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

hate him,

knees beside the

have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of

a nice

very far from these

time, staying here. I needed to go home

I

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

own eyes

Excuse

blinked open my

beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and

my eye. “Wait, there’s

was already disappearing out of the

watching me with curious eyes.

her my softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No one can talk when the King

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my arms and camed

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

one side. The three princes

on the bills in my purse. He was pale with hollowed out

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

and gaining their

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

and whispered something in the

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