The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0397

I immediately looked to Nicholas. His eyes were wide, locked straight on Bridget. Beside him, Julian was equally flabbergasted.

Looking at Bridget, I found she was staring straight back. Her smile softened. She seemed more genuine than before.

At once, Nicholas and Julian broke out with big smiles of their own. Each cut straight through me.

“Isn’t that Bridget, the movie star?” Tiffany whispered from beside me. On the other side, Jessica grumbled, “What hope do any of us have now?”

Nicholas moved first. He rushed toward the edge of the platform and then hopped down. He all but ran to greet Bridget at her car. She held open her arms and then hugged.

“Shit,” Lilliana cursed. I wouldn’t agree with her on much, but in this, I felt our opinions were in tandem.

The cameras moved closer, eager to capture the reunion on film. Nicholas’s smile was brighter and happier than they usually see. Typically for the public, he was so reserved, but for Bridget, his old flame, he was more like the person that I knew.

They ended their hug but stayed near. They looked at each other. I couldn’t hear what they were saying from my distance, but it seemed friendly and familiar. At one point, they both started laughing.

The only person with a face more dire than my own in the crowd might have. been Julian. His smile at first seeing Bridget shifted into a grim sort of frown.

I remembered his stories about how Nicholas stole away his true love. I could see now, how that would have so fully upset him. My own heart felt like it was shattering into pieces.

But then Bridget looked past Nicholas to Julian and waved him closer. Like a golden retriever on a leash, his luminous smile immediately returned, and he hopped off the stage to join her. She pulled him into a hug too. He held her tightly.

My heart cracked in half twice.

In the distance, the protests of the crowd dimmed down with Bridget’s sudden arrival. Instead, they seemed at first confused, and then excited. A chant began, Bridget, Bridget!” like the deeds of the past were forgotten and gone, and all that

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mattered was the sudden arrival of a mega celebrity.

the King truly knew what he was doing. Maybe Bridget’s arrival was what they needed to save themselves. And if her

My wolf was pacing unhappily across my mind, her words a whisper in my ear.

closely

our mate, I reminded her.

not agree.

with the princes, Nathan came forward to with the microphone. She blew k*sses to the

words in the microphone echoed through the

said, and even her voice was beautiful. “I’d like to thank the royal family for asking me to join the competition. And it is amazing to have so much support from my

the crowd. One girl

Bridget was brought to where I, Elva, and the other candidates were standing.

was not a compliment, but Bridget just smiled brighter. She’d likely heard any and all insults before. Maybe, coming here,

some

bright smile, like she fully intended to outdo Bridget’s

said. I wondered if she might have actually

greeted Bridget without much fanfare. “Hello.”

the ground. “So nice to meet you.” She

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her

magnanimously. “We all

tied to Mark’s, she hadn’t

way to me, her smile was just as bright as it had been at the start, like meeting all these people was no great

out her hand. I shook it. Then she looked down at Elva, who watched her back with wide

Elva said.

kindly. “A lovely compliment from such a