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

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

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

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if I was misremembering the past. Maybe

that young, innocent girl

said, adding some bite to

and I

are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow the same mistake to happen

turned and left me, then, walking out into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate him. So

liked children. He’d been kind

hate him, but I

sunk to my knees beside the

he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of us could have been a happy little

a nice

reality was very

to go home

I

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

quickly, my own

me Excuse

blinked open my

your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and

my eye. “Wait, there’s been a

was already disappearing out

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

be quiet though, okay? No one can talk when

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my arms and camed her

standing atop some

on one side. The three princes

in my purse. He was

camed far, like he was accustomed to public

the crowd and gaining

your presence and look

and whispered something in the

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