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.

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

for Elva, that

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

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

wasn’t that young, innocent girl

to my

and I intend to correct

“You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper.

left me, then, walking out into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate him.

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

to hate him, but

sunk to my knees beside the couch where

stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe

a

My reality was very far from these golden

time, staying here. I needed to go home and look for

I

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

quickly, my own

Excuse me,

blinked open my

me. I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and

my eye.

I looked up again, he was already disappearing out

with curious eyes. “Is it

smile. It is. We have to be quiet though,

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my arms and

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

his Luna on one side. The three princes flanked his

on the bills in

his voice camed far, like he was

and gaining their attention “Congratulations on

your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted over the coming

whispered something in the King’s

introductory conference here in a moment. I would now ask that only selected ladies stay