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 I had tried to push it to the back of

caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from the

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

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

that young,

said, adding some bite to my

and I intend to correct

who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow the same

room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate

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

wanted to hate him, but

sunk to my knees beside

world, 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

a

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

was wasting time, staying here. I needed to go home and look for another job, as soon

I

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

quickly, my own eyes

me Excuse me,

blinked open

King Luna, and

the sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s

up again, he was already disappearing out of

with curious eyes. “Is it time for more

her my softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No one can talk when the King

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my arms

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

side. The

the bills in my purse. He was pale with hollowed

camed far, like he

said, calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on

monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and

leaned in and whispered something

in a moment. I would now ask that only selected ladies stay