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

work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully

with him now and seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard,

+15 BONUS

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

I wasn’t that young, innocent girl

bite to

mistake, and I intend to correct

coldly that a chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who

turned and 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 he was,

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him. So

cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of his misconceptions about me out

to hate him, but I

knees beside the couch where Elva

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

a nice

very far from these golden fixtures

staying here. I needed to go home and look for another job, as soon

I

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

own eyes slid

me Excuse

open my

over me. I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I

rubbed the sleep from my eye.

he was already disappearing out of the room. He left the

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

her my softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No one can talk

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my arms and

was standing atop some type of stage The

one side. The three princes

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

far, like he was

the crowd and gaining their

pleased by your presence and look forward to

in and whispered