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

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

all those feelings crashing back into

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misremembering the past.

I wasn’t that young,

whatever you want,” I said, adding some bite to my own voice. The hurt made

is a mistake, and I

said, so coldly that a chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate

liked children. He’d been kind to

hate him,

my knees beside the couch where Elva

we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his

was a nice

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

needed to go home

I

cushion. I was so drained, from the

quickly, my own eyes

me Excuse

blinked open

pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived,

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

up again, he was already disappearing

watching me with curious eyes. “Is it

my softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though, okay?

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my arms and camed her

royal family was standing atop some type of stage The King stood at

on one side. The three

in

well and his voice camed far, like

calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on

by your presence and

in and whispered something in the King’s

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