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.

been something I wanted to do. It hurt me still, thinking upon it, so I had tried to push it

and caring for Elva, that I could successfully

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

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

that young, innocent girl

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

a mistake, and I

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

sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged as he was, but

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him.

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

hate

beside the

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

was a

very far from these golden fixtures and

time, staying here. I needed to go

I

beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was so

own

me Excuse me,

blinked open my

the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest

rubbed the sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s been

disappearing out of the room. He

sat up on the couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time for more pretty

be quiet

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and

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

on one side. The three princes flanked

bills in my purse. He was pale with hollowed out

well and his voice camed far, like

he said, calming the crowd and gaining

very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted

leaned in and whispered something in the King’s

We will be conducting an introductory conference here in a moment.