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

work, and caring for Elva, that I could

become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so

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now that I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the past.

I wasn’t that

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

a mistake, and I intend to

ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate him. So

might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been

hate him, but I

knees beside the couch

we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three

a

reality. My reality was very far from these golden fixtures and

time, staying here. I needed to go home and look

I

on the cushion. I was so drained,

quickly, my own eyes slid

Excuse me,

blinked open

nervous official hovered over me. I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived,

sleep from my eye. “Wait,

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

watching me with curious eyes.

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my

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

one side. The

bills in my

voice camed far, like he was accustomed

said, calming the crowd and gaining

very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted over the coming

leaned in and whispered something