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.

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

other things to focus on like work, and caring for

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

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

wasn’t that young,

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

and I intend

woman who ever dared to

out into the parlor. I thought he might slam the door behind him, as

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him. So

liked children. He’d

hate him, but

sunk to my knees beside

a different world, maybe Elva would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would

a

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

to go home and look for

I

on the cushion. I was

my own

me Excuse me,

blinked open my

your pardon, miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I

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

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

up on the couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time for more

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my arms and camed her

the royal family was standing atop

Luna on one side. The three princes

looked older than he did on the bills in my purse. He

well and his voice camed far,

he said, calming the crowd and gaining their

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

leaned in and whispered something in the

We will be conducting an introductory conference here in a