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

on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from

brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard,

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now that I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been kind. Maybe I had been too

that young,

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

a mistake, and I intend

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

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, but

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate

cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any

to hate

sunk to my knees beside

maybe he would have revealed his secret in time.

was a nice

wasn’t reality. My reality was very

go home and look for another job, as soon

I

I rested my head beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was so drained, from the trip, from seeing Nicholas

own eyes

Excuse

blinked open my

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

uh.“I rubbed the sleep from my eye. “Wait,

he was already disappearing out

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

be quiet though,

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my

atop some type of stage The King stood at

Luna on one side. The three princes flanked his

King looked older than he did on the bills in my purse.

well and his voice camed far, like he

he said, calming the crowd and

this monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and look

whispered something in the King’s