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 I could successfully distract myself from the pain of his

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

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help but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe he’d never been kind. Maybe I had been

that

whatever you want,” I said, adding some bite to my own voice. The

is a mistake, and

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

out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate

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

hate him, but I

beside

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

a

My reality was very far from these

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

I

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

my own

Excuse

blinked open my

I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you hurry to the parlor

sleep from my eye. “Wait,

up again, he was already disappearing

on the couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time for more pretty

gave her my softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and camed her

atop

The three princes flanked his other

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

well and his voice camed far,

the crowd and gaining

for this monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more

and whispered something

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