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.

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

caring for

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

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

wasn’t that young, innocent

to my own voice.

a mistake, and

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

parlor. I thought he might slam

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate

but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He

wanted to hate him,

sunk to my knees beside the couch where

would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed

was a nice

was very far from these golden fixtures

wasting time, staying here. I needed to go home and

I

Elva’s on the cushion. I was so drained, from the trip, from seeing Nicholas

my own

me Excuse

blinked open

King Luna, and princes

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

I looked up again, he was already disappearing out of the room. He left the door

watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time for more pretty

It is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No one can talk when the King

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my arms and

the parlor, the royal family was standing atop

Luna on one side. The three princes

on the bills in my purse. He

well and his voice camed far, like he was

calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on

We are very pleased by your presence and

whispered

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