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

so many other things to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from the pain of his

seeing what he had become, brought all

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but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been kind. Maybe I had been

I wasn’t that young, innocent girl

adding some bite to my own voice. The hurt made

a mistake, and I intend to correct

Nicholas said, so coldly 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 happen

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate

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

wanted to hate

beside the couch where

would have revealed his

was a nice

it wasn’t reality. My reality was very far from these golden fixtures

was wasting time, staying here. I needed to go home

I

Elva’s on the cushion. I was

my own eyes

Excuse

blinked open

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

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

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

up on the couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time for more pretty

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my arms

was standing atop some type of

Luna on one side. The three

did on the bills in my purse.

camed far, like he was

the crowd and gaining their

by your presence and

leaned in and whispered something in the