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.

up with him had never been something I wanted to do. It hurt me still, thinking upon it, so I had tried

so many other things to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully

what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into

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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 had been too

wasn’t that young, innocent girl

bite to my own

a mistake, and I intend to

ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate

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

wanted to hate him, but

to my knees beside the couch where

different world, maybe Elva would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the

a

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

time, staying here. I needed to go

I

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

own eyes

Excuse

blinked open

I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have

from my eye. “Wait,

again, he was already disappearing

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

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and camed her

atop some type of

Luna on one side. The three princes

than he did on the bills in my purse. He was pale with

far, like

the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations

by your presence and

whispered something

introductory conference here in a moment. I would