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.

something I wanted to do. It hurt me still, thinking upon it, so

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

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

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was misremembering the

I wasn’t that young,

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

and I intend

so coldly that a chill ran along my spine. “You are the only woman who ever dared to break up with

the parlor. I thought he might slam the

Elva continued resting, undisturbed.

to hate him. So

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

to hate

my knees beside the couch

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

was a nice

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

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

I

was so drained, from the trip, from seeing Nicholas

my own eyes

me Excuse

blinked open

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

my

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

sat up on the couch, watching me with curious eyes. “Is

her my softest smile. It is. We have to be quiet though, okay? No one

Luna are talking.”

“Okay”

Elva into my arms and camed

standing atop some type of stage The

The three

the bills in

voice camed far, like he was accustomed to public

calming the crowd and gaining their attention “Congratulations

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

in and whispered something in the King’s

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