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

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

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

wasn’t that

bite to my own voice.

mistake, and I intend to

coldly that a chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up

room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him,

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him. So

door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d

to hate him, but I

to my knees beside

Elva would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of us could have

was a nice

very

here. I needed to go home

I

was so

own eyes slid

me Excuse

blinked open

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

from my eye. “Wait, there’s

was already disappearing out of the room. He

with curious eyes. “Is it time for more

gave her my softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though,

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my arms and camed

atop some type of stage The King

side. The three princes flanked

than he did on the bills in my purse. He was pale with hollowed out

himself well and his voice camed far, like he was accustomed to

said, calming the crowd and gaining their attention

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

in and whispered

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