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.

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

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

become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard, they stole

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

I wasn’t that

you want,” I said, adding some bite to

mistake, and I

woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow the same mistake to

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him.

door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of

hate

to my knees beside the couch where

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

a

wasn’t reality. My reality was very far from these golden fixtures and expensive

needed to go home and look for another

I

head beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was

own eyes

Excuse

blinked open

your pardon, miss, but the King Luna,

the sleep from my eye.

again, he was already disappearing out of the

watching me with

It is. We have to be quiet though,

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my

standing atop

Luna on one side. The three princes flanked his

looked older than he did on the bills in my

camed far, like he was accustomed

and gaining their attention “Congratulations on

for 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.