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

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

all those

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misremembering the past. Maybe

that

you want,” I said, adding some bite to my

a mistake, and

are the only woman who ever dared to

the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged as he was, but instead, he gently closed

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him. So

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

to hate

knees beside the couch where

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

a nice

reality. My reality was very far from these golden fixtures and

to go home and look for another job, as

I

on the cushion. I was so

own eyes

me Excuse

blinked open my

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

my eye. “Wait,

I looked up again, he was already disappearing out of the

on the couch, watching me with curious eyes.

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms

family was standing atop some

Luna on one side. The three

King looked older than he did on the bills in my purse. He was pale with hollowed out cheeks,

voice camed far,

said, calming the crowd and

event. We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more

in and whispered something in the

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