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

so many other things to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I

what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard, they stole my

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help but wonder if I was misremembering

wasn’t that

adding some bite to my own

a mistake, and I intend to

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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.

wanted to hate him. So

might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take

to hate him,

knees beside the

maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of us could have been

was a

wasn’t reality. My reality was very far

go home and

I

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

quickly, my own eyes slid

Excuse

blinked open

beg your pardon, miss, but the King

sleep from my

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

with curious

It is. We have to be quiet though, okay?

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my arms and camed her

parlor, the royal family was standing atop some type of stage The

The three princes flanked his

bills in my

voice camed far, like he was accustomed

the crowd and

by your presence and look forward to

leaned in and whispered

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