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

things to focus on like work, and caring for Elva,

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

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but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d

wasn’t that young, innocent girl

you want,” I said, adding some bite to

mistake, and I

Nicholas said, so coldly that a chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow the same

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 as

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him.

slammed that door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of his misconceptions about

wanted to hate

knees beside the couch where

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

a nice

reality was very far from these golden fixtures

needed to go home and look

I

I was so drained, from

quickly, my own eyes slid

me Excuse

open

the King Luna, and princes

sleep from my eye. “Wait,

disappearing out of the room. He left

up on the couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time for more

We have to be quiet though, okay? No

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my

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

Luna on one side. The

the bills in my purse. He was pale with hollowed out cheeks,

camed far, like he was accustomed to public

said, calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on having

are very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted

Luna leaned in and whispered something in