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.

do. It hurt me still, thinking upon it,

other things to focus on like work, and caring for Elva, that I could

had become, brought all those feelings crashing back into Tome so hard, they stole

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

wasn’t that young, innocent

said, adding some bite to my own voice.

is a mistake, and I intend to correct

ran 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 happen

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

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate

children. He’d been kind to Elva. He didn’t take any of his

hate him, but

beside

would have revealed his secret in time. Maybe the three of us could have

was a

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

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

I

cushion. I was

quickly, my own

Excuse me,

blinked open

miss, but the King Luna, and princes have arrived, I suggest you hurry to the parlor at

the sleep from my eye. “Wait,

again, he was already disappearing out of

watching me with curious eyes. “Is

We have to be quiet though, okay? No one can talk when

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

pulled Elva into my arms and camed her

standing atop some type of stage The King stood at

his Luna on one side. The three princes flanked his other

did on the bills in my purse.

his voice camed far, like he was

said, calming the crowd and

this monumental event. We are very pleased by your presence

leaned in and whispered something in the King’s

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