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

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

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

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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, innocent girl

to my own voice. The hurt made it easier.

is a mistake, and I intend to correct

that a chill 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 happen

into the parlor. I thought he might slam

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him.

slammed that door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He

hate him,

my knees beside the

If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the

a nice

very far from these golden fixtures and

go home and look for another job, as soon

I

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

own eyes slid

Excuse

blinked open

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

sleep from my eye.

already disappearing out of the room. He left the door

up on the couch, watching me with

be quiet though,

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my arms and camed

was standing atop some type of

his Luna on one side. The three princes flanked his

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

far, like he

calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations

by your presence and look forward to becoming

in and whispered something in the