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

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

faced with him now and seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard, they stole my breath

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if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never

that

some bite to my own voice. The hurt made it

is a mistake, and

“You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper.

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him. So

liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t

hate

knees beside the couch

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

was a nice

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

needed to go home and look for

I

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

own eyes slid

me Excuse me,

blinked open my

me. I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you hurry to

rubbed the sleep from my

I looked up again, he was already disappearing out of the room.

on the couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time

smile. It is. We have to be quiet

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my

atop some type of stage The King stood at

on one side. The three princes

on the bills in my purse.

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

crowd and gaining

by your presence and

and whispered something

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