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

faced with him now and seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing

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

I wasn’t that young, innocent

some bite to my own voice. The hurt made

is a mistake, and I

said, so coldly that a chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him. So

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

wanted to hate him,

beside the

different 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 could have been a

was a nice

it wasn’t reality. My reality was very far from these golden

was wasting time, staying here. I needed to go home and

I

the cushion. I was so drained,

quickly, my own eyes slid

Excuse

open

nervous official hovered over me. I beg your pardon, miss, but the King

rubbed the sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s been a

already disappearing out of the room. He left

up on the couch, watching me with curious eyes.

to be quiet though, okay? No one

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my arms and

standing atop some

one side. The three princes flanked

in my purse. He was

his voice camed far, like

calming the crowd and

are very pleased by your presence and look forward

Luna leaned in and whispered