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

to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself

seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing

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

I wasn’t that young, innocent girl

to my own voice. The

mistake, and I

the only woman who

parlor. I

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate

a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to

hate him, but I

to my knees beside the couch where

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

a

very far from

here. I needed to go home and look for

I

rested my head beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was so drained, from the trip,

quickly, my own eyes

me Excuse me,

blinked open

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

rubbed the sleep from my eye. “Wait,

was already disappearing

watching me with curious eyes. “Is

have to be

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms

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

Luna on one side. The three princes flanked

did on the bills in my

camed far, like he was

and gaining their

presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted over the coming

leaned in and whispered something in the

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