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

other things to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could

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

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

I wasn’t that

I said, adding some bite to my own

a mistake, and I intend to correct

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 to happen

and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate him.

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

hate him, but

my knees beside the couch where Elva

different world, maybe Elva would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of us could have

was a

very

needed to go home and

I

beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was

my own eyes slid

me Excuse me,

blinked open

the King Luna, and

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

looked up again, he was already disappearing out of the room. He

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

It is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No one

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and camed

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

The three princes flanked his

bills in my purse. He was pale

far, like he was accustomed

said, calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on having

your presence and look forward

and whispered something in the