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

for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from the

become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard,

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I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been

that

some bite to my own voice. The hurt made it

mistake, and I intend to correct

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

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him.

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

hate him,

beside the

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 us

a nice

very far from

staying here. I needed to go home and look for another

I

cushion. I was so drained, from

quickly, my own

me Excuse me,

open

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

rubbed the sleep from my

he was already disappearing out of the room. He left the door

with curious

my softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my arms and

atop some type of stage The King stood

The

looked older than he did on the bills in my purse. He

well and his voice camed far, like

he said, calming the crowd and

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

in and whispered

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