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

caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from

had become, brought all those feelings

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help but wonder if I was misremembering the past.

I wasn’t that

some bite to my

and I intend to

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

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him. So

bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind

hate him,

to my knees beside the

had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of us could have been a

a

it wasn’t reality. My reality was very far from

here. I needed to go home and

I

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

own eyes

Excuse me,

open

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

uh.“I rubbed the sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s been a

again, he was already disappearing out of the

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

We have to be quiet though,

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and camed

parlor, the royal family was standing atop some type of

one side. The

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

voice camed far, like he was accustomed to public

the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on having

very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted over the coming

leaned in and whispered something in the King’s