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

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

he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so

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

wasn’t that young,

bite to my own voice. The hurt made it

is a mistake, and I intend to correct

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

out into the parlor. I thought he

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him.

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

to hate him, but

knees 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

was a

My reality was very far from these golden fixtures and expensive

I needed to go home and

I

on the cushion. I was so

my own eyes

Excuse

open my

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

from my

he was already disappearing

up on the couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my arms and

royal family was standing atop some type of stage

one side. The three princes flanked his other

than he did on the bills in my

well and his voice camed far, like he was

he said, calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on having

your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted

leaned in and whispered something in the