The Luna Choosing Game

I stared at him, startled. Did he actually think that I broke up with him to be with someone else?

He must have, because he returned my stare with one of his own.

“No.” I wished with all of my heart that he would believe me without an explanation, I didn’t want to lie to

him.

But I knew him. So I knew it wouldn’t be enough.

“Then, why?” he asked, voice soft in the quiet room.

I couldn’t tell him the truth. He would hate me worse than he already did.

“Please don’t ask me that.”

His expression hardened. “I can only hope you learned from your mistake. Obviously the man you left me

for wasn’t worthy, if he abandoned you and Elva.”

He had it all wrong. I would have never left Nicholas for anyone else. Who else could compare? Nicholas

had my full heart from the start. Even now, I was still peeling parts of it away from him.

“You were short–sighted, chasing after selfish pleasures.” Looking away from me, Nicholas returned to aggressively scrubbing an already–clean dish. “You left your studies and your boyfriend behind, and for

what?”

I reached over and removed the dish from him before he could break it.

into the sink.

suspected he’d hated me for my supposed betrayal, but I hadn’t realized before just how

had hurt him

never thought I deserved him, even before I knew he

move on quickly, as jealous as

expected the hurt would stay with him, even three years later. Unless, of course, this hurt

of having his ego

hands are

a moment just

hard for what litle I have. I do my

s fond

receiving such a compliment from Nicholas,

like I never get to see her enough. I work

it though, to see her happy. She had

about you? Were you happy at

small shrug. “At times. But it was tiring too.

I’m not sure why anyone would want to

“Most women would want

good medical care for Elva. I wish I could afford it

easy for you since you left the

put it mildly,” I said, with a

as much as smile. If anything, he only looked