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

for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from the pain of

seeing what he had become, brought all those

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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

wasn’t that young,

I said, adding some bite to my own

mistake, and

the only woman who ever dared to

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him.

but he liked children. He’d been kind

to hate him,

sunk to my knees beside the couch where Elva

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

a nice

reality was very far from these golden fixtures

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

I

was so drained, from the

my own eyes

me Excuse

open

the King

my eye. “Wait, there’s been

he was already disappearing out of the room. He left

on the couch, watching me with curious eyes.

my softest smile. It is. We have to be

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my

family was standing atop some type

his Luna on one side. The three princes flanked his

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

himself well and his voice camed far, like he was

said, calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations

We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more

whispered something in the

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