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

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

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misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been kind.

that

adding some bite to my own voice. The hurt made

mistake, and I intend to

Nicholas said, so coldly that a chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to

and then out into the parlor. I

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him.

children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of his misconceptions

hate him, but I

beside the

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

was a

wasn’t reality. My reality was very far from these

to go home and look for another job, as soon as

I

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

own

Excuse

blinked open

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

uh.“I rubbed the sleep from my

he was already disappearing out of the room.

up on the couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is it

to be quiet though, okay? No one can talk

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my

atop some type of stage The King stood

on one side. The

than he did on the bills in my

voice camed far, like he was accustomed to public

and gaining their attention “Congratulations on

for this monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted

Luna leaned in and whispered something in the

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