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

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

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

that young, innocent

I said, adding some bite to my own voice. The hurt made it easier.

a mistake, and I intend to

my spine. “You are the only woman who

left 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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate

cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children.

to hate him, but

sunk to my knees beside the

our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of

a

very far from these golden fixtures and expensive

I needed to go home and look

I

I was so drained, from the trip,

quickly, my own eyes slid

Excuse

blinked open

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

my eye. “Wait, there’s been

disappearing out of the room. He left

up on the couch, watching me with curious eyes.

her my softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my arms

was standing atop some type of stage The King

one side. The three

King looked older than he did on the bills in my purse. He was pale with hollowed out

well and his voice camed far,

calming the crowd and gaining their attention

very pleased by your presence and look

in and whispered something in the King’s