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

so many other things to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could

become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome

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so different now that I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been

wasn’t that

said, adding some bite to my own voice. The hurt

mistake, and I intend to correct

spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate

insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been

to hate him, but I

to my knees beside the couch

had stayed together, maybe he would

a nice

reality was very far from these golden fixtures and

here. I needed to go home and look for another job, as soon as

I

I rested my head beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was

quickly, my own eyes

me Excuse me,

open

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

uh.“I rubbed the sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s

again, he was already disappearing out of

sat up on the couch, watching me with curious

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my

was standing atop some type of stage The King stood at

side. The three princes flanked his other

did on the bills in

far, like he was

the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on having

by your presence and look forward to becoming

in and whispered something in

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