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

many other things to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from the pain of

had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so

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

that

you want,” I said, adding some bite to my own voice.

and I intend to

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

parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate

be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any

hate him, but I

beside

a different world, maybe Elva would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have

was a

it wasn’t reality. My reality was very

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

I

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

my own

me Excuse

blinked open my

official hovered over me. I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you hurry

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

already disappearing out of the room. He

me with curious eyes. “Is it time for

gave her my softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though, okay?

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my arms and camed her

in the parlor, the royal family was standing atop some type of stage The King stood at

on one side. The three princes flanked

did on the bills in my purse. He was pale

and his voice camed far, like he was accustomed

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

pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted

in and whispered something