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

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

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

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help but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never

that young, innocent girl

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

mistake, and I intend to

so coldly that a chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me.

sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him.

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

hate him, but I

knees beside the

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

was a nice

My reality was very far from these golden fixtures

needed to go

I

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

my own eyes slid

me Excuse me,

open

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

sleep from my eye. “Wait,

disappearing out of the

me with curious eyes. “Is it time for

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my arms and camed

was standing atop some type

side. The three

in

himself well and his voice camed far, like he was accustomed

crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations

monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and

and whispered something in the King’s

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