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.

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

for Elva, that I could successfully distract myself from the pain of his

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

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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

I wasn’t that young, innocent girl

said, adding some bite to my own voice. The hurt made it

mistake, and

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

and then out into the parlor. I

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

wanted to hate him.

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 out

wanted to hate

beside the couch where

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

was a

was very far from these golden fixtures and

here. I needed to go home and look for another job, as soon

I

beside Elva’s on the cushion. I was

my own eyes slid

me Excuse

open

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

the sleep from my

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

sat up on the couch, watching me with curious

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

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my arms

the royal family was standing atop some type of

Luna on one side. The three princes flanked his other

older than he did on the bills in my purse. He was pale with

himself well and his voice camed far, like

the crowd and gaining their

your presence and look forward to becoming more acquainted over the coming

whispered something in the King’s

a moment. I would