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

things to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully

become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome

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I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering

that young,

you want,” I said, adding some bite to my

mistake, and I intend to correct

woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow the same mistake to

the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged as he was, but instead,

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate

liked children. He’d been kind

to hate him, but I

to my knees beside

different world, maybe Elva would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe

was a

reality was very far from these golden fixtures

I needed to go home

I

beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was

quickly, my own eyes

Excuse me,

open

I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest

from my eye. “Wait, there’s been a

again, he was already disappearing out

with curious eyes. “Is it

be

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my

standing atop some type

Luna on one side. The three princes flanked his

the bills in my purse. He was

well and his voice camed far, like he was accustomed to

the crowd and gaining their attention

your presence and look forward to becoming more

and whispered something in

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