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.

had never been something I wanted to do. It hurt me still, thinking upon it, so I had tried to push it to the

like work, and caring for Elva, that I

him now and seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings

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

I wasn’t that

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

mistake, and I intend to

ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever

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,

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him.

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

to hate him, but I

to my knees beside the couch where Elva

together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of us could have been a

was a

was very far from these golden fixtures and expensive

needed to go

I

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

my own eyes

me Excuse

blinked open my

nervous official hovered over me. I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I

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

disappearing out of the room. He

couch, watching me with curious eyes.

It is. We have to be quiet though,

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my arms and camed

in the parlor, the royal family was standing atop

his Luna on one side. The three princes flanked

looked older than he did on the bills in my purse. He was pale with hollowed out cheeks,

well and his voice camed far, like he was accustomed to public

crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on having

pleased by your presence

and whispered

conference here in a