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 successfully

and seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing

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

wasn’t that young, innocent

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

and I intend

are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll

left me, then, walking out into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged as he was, but

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate

he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take

wanted to hate him, but I

beside the couch where Elva

together, maybe he would have

a

was very far from these golden

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

I

beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was

quickly, my own eyes slid

Excuse me,

blinked open

the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you hurry

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

already disappearing out

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

is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No one can talk

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and

was standing atop some type of stage

on one side. The three princes

did on the bills in my purse.

camed far,

crowd and

presence and look

in and whispered something in

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