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.

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

on like work, and caring for Elva, that

brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so

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so different now that I couldn’t help but wonder if I was misremembering the past. Maybe

that young, innocent girl

you want,” I said, adding some bite to my own voice. The hurt made it

a mistake, and I

ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to

I thought he might slam the door behind

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him. So

he hadn’t slammed that door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of his

wanted to hate him,

beside the couch where

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

was a nice

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

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

I

head beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was so drained,

quickly, my own

me Excuse me,

open

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

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

disappearing

couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time

is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my arms

parlor, the royal family was standing atop some type of stage The King stood at the

on one side. The three

than he did on the bills in my

camed far, like he was accustomed

the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on

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

and whispered

an introductory conference here in a