The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

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“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.

It hurt me still, thinking upon it, so

other things to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from the pain of his

now and seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so

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so different now that I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d

wasn’t that young,

you want,” I said, adding some bite to my own voice.

a mistake, and I intend

only woman who ever dared to break up with me.

the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate

children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of his misconceptions

to hate him, but

beside the

together, maybe he would have revealed his secret

a nice

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

go home

I

Elva’s on the cushion. I was

own eyes slid

Excuse

open

King Luna, and princes have arrived,

from my eye. “Wait,

up again, he was already disappearing out of

sat up on the couch, watching me with

is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No one

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my arms

in the parlor, the royal family was standing atop some type of stage The King stood at the

side. The

in my purse.

well and his voice camed far, like he was accustomed

calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on having

by your presence and

whispered something in

conducting an introductory conference here in a moment. I would now ask