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.

never been something I wanted to do. It hurt me still, thinking upon it, so I had tried to push it to the back

for Elva, that I could successfully

become, brought all those feelings crashing back into

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

wasn’t that young, innocent

to my

a mistake, and I intend to

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

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him.

door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva.

to hate

to my knees beside the

stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of us could have been a happy

a

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

needed to go home and look for another

I

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

own

me Excuse

blinked open my

hovered over me. I beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I

my eye. “Wait, there’s been a

again, he was already disappearing out of the room. He left the

Elva sat up on the couch, watching me with curious eyes.

have to be quiet though,

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and

family was standing atop some type of stage The King

one side. The three

the bills in my purse. He was pale with hollowed out

himself well and his voice camed far,

and gaining their attention “Congratulations on having

by your presence and look forward

Luna leaned in and whispered something in the

will be conducting an introductory conference here in a moment. I