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.

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

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

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

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

that

some bite to my own voice. The

a mistake, and

only woman who ever dared to break up

and left me, then, walking out into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged as he was, but instead, he gently closed

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him. So

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

to hate

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

was a

reality. My reality was very far from these golden fixtures and expensive

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

I

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

own

Excuse me,

open

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

my eye. “Wait,

was already disappearing out of the room. He left the

Elva sat up on the couch, watching me with curious

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my arms and

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

on one side. The three princes flanked his

on the bills in my purse. He was pale with

himself well and his voice camed far, like he was accustomed

crowd and gaining their

by your presence and look forward to becoming

leaned in and whispered

introductory conference here in a moment.