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

many other things to focus on like work, and caring for

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

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I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d

I wasn’t that young, innocent

some bite to my own voice. The hurt made

a mistake, and I

chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me.

me, then, walking out into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged as he

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate him.

children. He’d

hate him,

sunk to my knees beside the

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

was a

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

go home and look

I

I was

my own eyes

me Excuse

blinked open my

nervous official hovered over me. I beg your pardon, miss, but the King

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

he was already disappearing out of the room. He left the

couch, watching me with curious

We have to be quiet

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my arms

was standing atop some type of stage The

Luna on one side. The three princes

in my purse. He was

well and his voice camed far, like he was

the crowd and gaining their

your presence and look forward to

Luna leaned in and whispered something

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