The Luna Choosing Game

“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

and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from the pain of his

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

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

I wasn’t that young,

whatever you want,” I said, adding some bite to my own voice. The hurt made it easier.

and I intend

“You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow the same mistake

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him.

slammed that door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d

wanted to hate him, but I

beside

stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of us could have been a happy little

a nice

My reality was very

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

I

was so drained, from the trip, from

my own

me Excuse

open my

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

my

again, he was already disappearing out of

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

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my arms and camed her

standing atop some type of stage The King stood at the

on one side. The three princes flanked his other

than he did on the bills in my purse. He was pale with hollowed

well and his voice camed far, like

said, calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on having

by your presence and look forward to becoming

whispered something