The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 6

“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

caring for Elva, that I could

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

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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

wasn’t that young, innocent

some bite to my own

and

that a chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me.

I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged as

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him.

hadn’t slammed that door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been

to hate

beside

would have revealed his secret

was a

was very far from these golden fixtures and

I needed to go home and look

I

on the cushion. I was so

my own eyes

Excuse

blinked open my

over me. I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you hurry to the parlor at

my eye. “Wait, there’s been

up again, he was already disappearing out of

me with curious eyes. “Is it time for more

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my

standing atop

on one side. The three princes flanked

older than he did on the bills in

and his voice camed far, like

he said, calming the crowd and gaining their

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

and whispered something in

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