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.

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

to focus on like work, and caring for

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

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

I wasn’t that young, innocent

want,” I said, adding some bite to

a mistake, and I intend to correct

who ever

out into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate

He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of his misconceptions about me out on

wanted to hate

my knees beside the couch where Elva

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

was a nice

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

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

I

the cushion. I was

own

me Excuse me,

open my

King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you hurry to the parlor

from my eye. “Wait, there’s been

already disappearing out

me with

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my arms and camed her

atop

on one side. The

on the bills in my purse.

and his voice camed far, like he

said, calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on

your presence and look forward to

leaned in and whispered

will be conducting an introductory conference here in a moment. I would now ask that only selected ladies