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 successfully

faced with him now and seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard, they stole my

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

that young, innocent

said, adding some bite to my own voice. The hurt made

is a mistake, and I

woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper.

out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate

he hadn’t slammed 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 about me out

to hate

beside

a different world, maybe Elva would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe

a nice

My reality was very far from these golden fixtures

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

I

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

my own

me Excuse

open my

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

the sleep from my

disappearing out of the room. He left the door

Elva sat up on the couch, watching me with curious eyes.

my softest smile. It is. We have to be

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my arms

atop some type of stage The

The

than he did on the bills in

his voice camed far, like he was accustomed

and gaining

are very pleased by your presence

and whispered