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

like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from the pain of

him now and seeing what he had become, brought all

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

wasn’t that young,

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

and I intend

the only woman who ever dared to break up with

then, walking out into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him.

but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of his misconceptions about me out

to hate him,

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 in time. Maybe the three of

was a

My reality was very far from

time, staying here. I needed to go

I

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

own eyes slid

Excuse

open my

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

sleep from my eye. “Wait,

looked up again, he was already disappearing out of the

Elva sat up on the couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and camed her

standing atop

The three

in my

camed far,

and gaining their attention

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

Luna leaned in and whispered something in the

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