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

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

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

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

wasn’t that

adding some bite to my own

mistake, and I intend

only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him.

that door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any

hate

sunk to my knees beside the couch where Elva

would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of us could have been

a nice

My reality was very far from these golden fixtures and expensive

needed to go home and

I

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

my own

Excuse me,

open

beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you hurry

uh.“I rubbed the sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s

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

watching me with curious eyes.

smile. It is. We have to be quiet though,

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my

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

Luna on one side. The three princes

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

voice camed far, like

calming the crowd and

monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and

whispered something