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 from the pain of his

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

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

that

some bite to my own voice. The

mistake, and I intend to correct

are the only woman who ever

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him. So

liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take

wanted to hate

my 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 could have been

a nice

was very far from

staying here. I needed to go home and look

I

my head beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was so drained,

quickly, my own eyes slid

me Excuse

blinked open

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

the sleep from my eye. “Wait,

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

with curious eyes. “Is it time for

We have to be quiet though, okay?

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and

was standing atop some type

The three princes flanked his

the bills in my purse. He was pale

well and his voice camed far, like

the crowd and

for this monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted

leaned in and whispered something in