The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 6

“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

focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully

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

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that I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been kind. Maybe I had been too

I wasn’t that young, innocent girl

I said, adding some bite to my own voice.

and I

Nicholas 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 sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate him.

bastard but he liked children.

hate him,

beside the couch where

stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of

a nice

wasn’t reality. My reality was very far from these golden fixtures

I needed to go

I

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

own eyes slid

Excuse me,

open

but the King Luna, and

the sleep from my eye.

he was already disappearing

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

be quiet though, okay? No one can talk when the King

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my arms and

atop some type of stage The King

his Luna on one side. The three

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

camed far, like he was accustomed

calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on

are very pleased by your presence and look forward to

leaned in and whispered

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