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

caring for Elva, that I could

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

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was so different now that I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the

that young, innocent girl

want,” I said, adding some bite to my own voice. The hurt

and I

coldly that a chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me.

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him. So

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

hate him, but I

to my knees beside

a 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 happy

a nice

very far from these golden fixtures and expensive

to go home and look for another

I

on the cushion. I was so drained, from the trip,

quickly, my own eyes

Excuse me,

blinked open my

King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you

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

up again, he was already disappearing out of

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

have to be quiet though,

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my arms and camed her

standing atop some type of stage

one side. The three princes

older than he did on the bills in my purse. He was pale with

well and his voice camed far, like

the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on having

your presence and

in and whispered something