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

caring for Elva, that I could successfully

with him now and seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard, they

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

wasn’t that young, innocent

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

and I intend to

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

out into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him. So

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

wanted to hate him, but

beside the couch

maybe Elva would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in

was a

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

wasting time, staying here. I needed to go

I

on the cushion. I was so drained, from the trip, from seeing Nicholas again, from…

own

me Excuse

open my

the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest

the sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s

was already disappearing out

watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time for more

be quiet

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my arms and

royal family was standing atop some type of stage The King stood

one side. The

the bills in my purse. He was pale with

his voice camed far,

crowd and gaining their attention

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

in and whispered something in the

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