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

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

faced with him now and seeing what he had become, brought all those

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was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been kind. Maybe

wasn’t that young, innocent

to my own voice. The hurt made

mistake, and I intend to

said, 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 never allow the same mistake

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 instead, he

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him.

cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d

to hate him,

to my knees beside the

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

a nice

My reality was very far from these golden

here. I needed to go home and look for another job, as soon as

I

beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was

my own eyes slid

me Excuse me,

blinked open my

your pardon, miss, but the King Luna,

rubbed the sleep from my eye.

he was already disappearing out of the room. He left

with curious eyes.

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my arms

parlor, the royal family was standing atop some type of stage The King stood at the

Luna on one side. The three princes

older than he did on the bills in

his voice camed far, like he

calming the crowd and gaining their attention

presence and

and whispered something in