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.

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

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

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

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

that

you want,” I said, adding some bite to my own voice.

and I intend

woman who ever dared to break

I thought he

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

hate

insensitive bastard but he liked children. He’d been kind

wanted to hate him, but I

to my knees beside the couch

maybe Elva would have been our child. If we had stayed together, maybe he would have revealed his secret in

was a nice

wasn’t reality. My reality was very

here. I needed to go

I

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

own eyes

me Excuse me,

blinked open

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

my eye. “Wait,

I looked up again, he was already disappearing

watching me with curious eyes. “Is

It is. We have to be quiet though,

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

I pulled Elva into my

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

on one side. The three princes flanked his other

than he did on the bills in

camed far,

crowd and gaining their

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

in and whispered

a moment. I would