The Luna Choosing Game

Nicholas had never met my twin, but I had definitely talked about her when he and I had been dating. I was constantly worried about her, and she would sneak out into my conversations without even meaning

1. to.

Ever since we were kids, she was getting in trouble. Maybe she was too free–spirited. Maybe she was an adrenaline junkie. I’d never been sure. But she chased danger like she was invincible. It was only a matter

of time before she caught it

Or it caught her.

Under the bright moonlight, I watched the shifts in Nicholas’s expression as he thought it through.

That I had left him to be with someone else had been the most obvious answer for my sudden

departure. He had convinced himself it was true because it made the most sense

But I couldn’t help but wonder if deep down, he doubted.

We had been very much in love for all of our time together. We clicked fast and fell hard. For a long time,

I thought he might be the one.

He knew that. He felt it too.

leave for such a selfish reason. I was not

pulled

it together. My

we broke up, Elva had

he said. “Your

I nodded.

So she would also look like her.”

if seeing me for the first time. “Elva is

part. The rest I could nove spl

sister went with the wrong crowd. She became tangled up in a series of bad situations

contact with

asked for my

remembered the desperation in her voice as she had begged me, “Piper, I need

never told me,” Nicholas said. “I would have

involve you in this. You are nobility

you were hurting. I should have been

You’d never been… tarnished with any of the things she was involved in.” I lowered my head, afraid he might see the lingering feelings on my face. “I

you safe.”

finger under my chin and gently coaxed

but his eyes held only concern. When he spoke, his voice

keeping you safe?”

both knew the answer. no