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

things to focus on like work, and caring for Elva,

seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard, they stole my

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so different now that I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the past.

wasn’t that young, innocent girl

to my

and I intend to

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

the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him,

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him.

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

wanted to hate him, but I

beside the couch where

If we had stayed together, maybe he would

was a nice

reality was very

I needed to go home and look

I

I rested my head beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was so

my own eyes slid

me Excuse

blinked open

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

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

again, he was already disappearing out of the room. He left the door

me with curious eyes. “Is

We have to be

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms

was standing atop some type of stage The King stood

on one side. The three princes flanked his other

in my purse. He was

voice camed far, like he

calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on having

this monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted

in and whispered something in the King’s