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

and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself

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

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if I was misremembering

I wasn’t that young,

you want,” I said, adding some bite to

is a mistake, and I intend

are the only woman who

into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged as he was, but instead,

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate him.

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

wanted to hate him,

knees beside the

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

was a

was very far

I needed to go home and look for

I

on the cushion. I was so drained, from the trip, from seeing Nicholas

quickly, my own eyes slid

me Excuse me,

open

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

from my eye. “Wait, there’s been

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

Elva sat up on the couch, watching me with

We have to be quiet though, okay? No one can

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my arms and camed

was standing atop

The three

did on the bills in my purse. He was pale

camed far, like he was accustomed to

crowd and gaining

pleased by your presence and look forward

Luna leaned in and whispered

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