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.

never been something I wanted to do. It hurt me still, thinking upon it,

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

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

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

wasn’t that young, innocent

I said, adding some bite to

and I intend to

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

the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged as he was, but instead, he gently closed

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him.

door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind

hate him,

knees beside the

together, maybe he would have

a nice

reality. My reality was very far from these golden fixtures and

go home

I

the cushion. I was so drained, from the trip, from seeing Nicholas again, from…

own eyes

Excuse me,

blinked open

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

the sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s

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

up on the couch, watching me with curious

my softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my arms

the parlor, the royal family was standing atop some type of

The three princes flanked his

the bills in my purse. He

well and his voice camed far, like he was

said, calming the crowd and gaining their attention

for this monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence

whispered something in the

course. We will be conducting an introductory conference here in a moment. I would now ask that only selected ladies