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

focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself

all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard, they stole

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

that

want,” I said, adding some bite to my

is a mistake, and I intend to correct

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

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 as he was, but instead, he gently closed

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him. So

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

hate him, but I

knees beside the couch where

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

was a

My reality was very far from

go home and look for another job,

I

cushion. I was so drained, from the trip, from seeing Nicholas again, from…

quickly, my own

Excuse me,

open

King Luna, and

sleep from my

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

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

We have to be quiet though, okay? No one can talk when

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and

standing atop some type

one side. The three princes flanked his

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

camed far, like he was accustomed to

crowd and

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

Luna leaned in and whispered something in