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.

wanted to do. It hurt me still, thinking upon it,

other things to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I

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

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now that I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been kind. Maybe I

wasn’t that young, innocent girl

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

a mistake, and

chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow the same mistake

then out into the parlor. I thought

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him.

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

to hate him, but I

my knees beside

maybe Elva would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of us could have been a happy little

a nice

was very far from these golden

needed to go

I

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

my own eyes slid

me Excuse me,

blinked open

miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you hurry to the parlor

the sleep from my eye.

already disappearing out of the room.

watching me with curious eyes. “Is it

my softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though,

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and camed

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

Luna on one side. The three

in my purse. He was pale

well and his voice camed far, like he was

crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on

this monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to

in and whispered something in the

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