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

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

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if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been

I wasn’t that

some bite to my

a mistake, and I intend to

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

out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged as he was, but instead, he gently closed

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him. So

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

to hate

beside the couch

maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of us could have

was a nice

was very far from these golden fixtures and

here. I needed to go home and look for another job, as

I

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

quickly, my own eyes

Excuse me,

blinked open

pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I

my eye. “Wait, there’s been a

I looked up again, he was already disappearing out of the

sat up on the couch, watching me with

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my

was standing atop some

his Luna on one side. The three princes flanked his

he did on the bills in my purse. He was pale with hollowed out cheeks,

voice camed far, like

the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on

We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted over

Luna leaned in and whispered something in the King’s