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 from the pain of his

now and seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into

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different now that I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering

that

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

is a mistake, and I

“You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow the

parlor. I thought he might

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate him. So

that door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take

to hate him,

to my knees beside the

been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed

was a nice

it wasn’t reality. My reality was very far

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

I

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

my own

Excuse

open

but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you hurry to the

the sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s been

he was already disappearing out of the room.

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

her my softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No one can

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my arms

royal family was standing atop some type of stage

Luna on one side. The

King looked older than he did on the bills in my purse. He was pale with hollowed out cheeks, but

his voice camed far, like he was

said, calming the crowd and gaining

this monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted

leaned in and whispered something in the King’s