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

work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from the

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

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

that young, innocent

bite to my own voice. The hurt made

a mistake, and

who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll

then out into the parlor. I thought he

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate

might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of his misconceptions

to hate him,

to my knees beside

we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his

a

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

wasting time, staying here. I needed to go home and look for another

I

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

my own

Excuse me,

blinked open

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

from my eye. “Wait, there’s been

again, he was already disappearing out of

sat up on the couch, watching me with curious

gave her my softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No one can talk when the King

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and

family was standing atop

one side. The three princes flanked his

on the bills in my purse. He was pale

voice camed far, like he was

crowd and gaining their attention

event. We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more

and whispered