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.

me still, thinking upon it, so I had tried

like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from the pain of his

with him now and seeing what he had become, brought all

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

that young, innocent

I said, adding some bite to my own voice.

is a mistake, and I

Nicholas said, so coldly that a chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never

walking out into the sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I thought he

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate

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

to hate him, but I

knees beside the couch

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

a

reality was very far

needed to go home and look for another job, as

I

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

own eyes

Excuse me,

blinked open

beg your pardon, miss, but the King Luna,

from my eye. “Wait, there’s

already disappearing out

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

softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though, okay?

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my arms and camed her

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

side. The three

did on the bills in my purse. He was

voice camed far,

crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on having

this monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence and look forward to becoming more

in and whispered

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