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

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

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

that young,

said, adding some bite to my own voice. The hurt made it easier.

is a mistake, and I intend to

“You are the only woman who

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him.

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

to hate him, but

to my knees beside the

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

was a

was very far from these

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

I

was so drained,

my own eyes

me Excuse

blinked open my

miss, but the King

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

again, he was already disappearing out of

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

It is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No one can talk when the King

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my arms and camed

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

Luna on one side. The three princes flanked

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

far, like

said, calming the crowd and

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

in and whispered