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.

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

caring for Elva, that

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

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wonder if I was misremembering the past.

that young, innocent

whatever you want,” I said, adding some bite to my own voice. The hurt made it easier.

a mistake, and I

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

parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him,

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate him.

hadn’t slammed that door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been

hate him,

my knees beside the

If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of us could have

was a nice

reality. My reality was very far

needed to go home and

I

I rested my head beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was so

my own eyes

me Excuse

open

King Luna, and princes have

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

he was already disappearing out of the room.

watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my arms and camed

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

side. The

in my purse. He was pale with hollowed

far, like

said, calming the crowd and

this monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted over the

and whispered something in the King’s

a moment. I would now ask