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 I

on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could successfully distract

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

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now 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

want,” I said, adding some bite to my own

a mistake, and I intend to

along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with me. Piper. I’ll never allow the same mistake to

left me, then, walking out into the sitting room, and 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.

to 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 misconceptions about me

wanted to hate

beside

been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of us could have been a happy little

a

was very far from these

wasting time, staying here. I needed to go home and

I

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

my own eyes

me Excuse me,

blinked open my

miss, but the King Luna, and princes have

from my eye. “Wait,

he was already disappearing out of the room. He

watching me with curious eyes. “Is it time

have to be quiet though, okay? No one can

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

into my arms

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

one side. The

did on the bills in

camed far,

said, calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations on

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

leaned in and whispered something in the King’s

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