The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0404

I bullied myself for a good long while after that. I tried to push back against my wolf that wanted to distrust Bridget at every turn. Jealous was what drove these feelings, I just knew it.

Nicholas and Bridget had a past, but that didn’t mean they had a future, right? I needed to get myself under control or I risked potentially losing what could be a very nice friendship. Bridget must have been great for both Nicholas and Julian to think so highly of her.

I needed to give her a chance. But it was a struggle.

The only person in the whole world who might understand what I’m going through and who might have answers

–

was Veronica.

So I searched. It didn’t take long. I knew exactly where she would be. Same place she’d been since the night of the happiness ball: in the library, researching.

She didn’t seem at all surprised at my arrival. She didn’t even look up as I plopped in the chair opposite her at her little wooden table covered in old books and tomes.

We sat in companionable silence for a while. It was relaxing, being surrounded by the smell of old books and parchment, with the only sounds my own breath and the rustling of pages.

“You want to ask me something,” Veronica said. She still didn’t look up from her book, though she placed her finger down onto the page as if to keep her spot should she become distracted.

“I don’t trust Bridget,” I said.

Veronica hummed in response, like she already knew that.

“But it makes no sense. I have no reason to distrust her. She’s never personally treated me unfairly. And Nicholas trusts her so much that he told Elva she can trust her too.” I drop my elbows onto the table and then bury my face in my hands. My next words come out muf fled. “I don’t know what’s wrong with me.” “She is a woman from the past of your current lover,” Veronica said. She turned a page. “You will, of course, feel some discomfort being around her, even if she’s an absolute saint. In fact, that might make your feelings of hatred worse, since they have nothing to focus on.”

“But it feels like more than that. Even if I feel threatened in my relationship, I

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shouldn’t personally distrust her. The thought of leaving her alone around Elva

have to speak with him about that later. Though I wasn’t sure how, without revealing my nonsensical distrust, which I doubted he would understand given

fingers. “Could it be related to me adjusting to

exemplifying your feelings, as it has

did make me feel everything so much worse. Forget jealousy. Maybe my feelings of distrust were being amplified

to blame,” Miracle grumbles in my head. “That one smells… wrong… “Perhaps you should speak with Prince Nicholas,” Veronica said. “He is not an unreasonable man. He may be able to quell some of your worries. At the very least, you can reaffirm your feelings. I take it

That was true.

speak with him,” Veronica said again. “See how he acts around you now that Bridget is

the same as always. And if Nicholas acted

I hoped.

what if she -” I

“Piper?”

My mouth immediately shut.

of the library. When he spotted me, he came closer with a tiny hint of a

he said. “I’ve been looking everywhere for

said politely. Finally, she looked up from her book, but not to properly greet Nicholas. Instead, she set me a flat

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message loud and

from

surprised by the question. “I just wanted to

Maybe

walk with you,” I said and stood from the

out his arm for me, and I laced

of our walk, everything seemed normal. We chatted about this and that. Nicholas squeezed my arm and made me

I needed to, as Veronica suggested, to clear the air between us. And I wanted

just felt so good to spend time with Nicholas,

have to do, so during a lull in our

hallway toward us, coming from the other way. Julian was two steps behind her. Her eyes were only for Nicholas.