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.

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

many other things to focus on like work, and caring for Elva,

faced with him now and seeing what he had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into

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

I wasn’t that young,

bite to my own voice. The hurt made

and I intend

coldly that a chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared

then out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as enraged as he was, but instead,

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him.

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

hate him,

to my knees beside the couch

would have revealed

was a

reality. My reality was very far from these golden fixtures and expensive

needed to go home and look for

I

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

my own

Excuse

open my

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

from my eye.

was already disappearing out of the room. He left the

Elva sat up on the couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my arms and camed

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

Luna on one side. The three princes flanked

on the bills in my

far, like he was

he said, calming the crowd and

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

leaned in and whispered something in the

course. We will be conducting an introductory conference here in a moment. I would now ask that only selected