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 the back of

like work, and caring for Elva,

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

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I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering

I wasn’t that young,

you want,” I said, adding some bite to my own

mistake, and I intend to correct

a chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him. So

children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of his misconceptions about

wanted to hate him, but I

knees beside the couch where

child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe

was a nice

reality was very far from these golden fixtures and

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

I

beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was

quickly, my own eyes slid

Excuse me,

blinked open my

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

rubbed the sleep from my eye. “Wait, there’s

he was already disappearing

me with curious eyes. “Is it time for more

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my

was standing atop some type of stage

side. The three princes flanked his

the bills in

well and his voice camed far, like he was accustomed

calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations

event. We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted over

and whispered

a moment. I would now