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

things to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from the pain

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

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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 wasn’t that young, innocent

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

is a mistake, and I

woman who ever

sitting room, and then out into the parlor. I

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate him.

door. He might be a cruel, insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t

to hate

my knees beside the couch where Elva

been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed

a

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

here. I needed to go home and look

I

the cushion. I was so

quickly, my own eyes

Excuse

blinked open

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

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

up again, he was already disappearing out

sat up on the couch, watching me with curious

gave her my softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

my arms and camed her

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

The three princes flanked his

the bills in my purse. He was pale

well and his voice camed far, like he was accustomed

the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations

by your presence and look forward

in and whispered something

conference here in a moment. I would now ask that only selected ladies stay to