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

other things to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from the pain

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

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I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the

I wasn’t that young, innocent girl

said, adding some bite to my own voice.

mistake, and I intend to

ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow the same mistake to

turned and left me, then, walking out into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate

that door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children.

to hate him,

beside the couch

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

wasting time, staying here. I needed to go home

I

was so drained, from the trip, from seeing

own eyes slid

me Excuse

open my

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

my eye. “Wait,

I looked up again, he was already disappearing out of the room. He

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

to be quiet though, okay? No one can talk when the King

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and camed

royal family was standing atop some type of stage The King stood

his Luna on one side. The three princes flanked his

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

far, like he

the crowd and gaining their

event. We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming

and whispered