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

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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

about that later. Though I wasn’t sure how, without revealing my nonsensical distrust, which I doubted he would understand given his deep friendship

peeked at Veronica through my fingers. “Could it be related

could at least be exemplifying your feelings, as

wolf did make me feel everything so much worse. Forget jealousy. Maybe my feelings of

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

That was true.

should speak with him,” Veronica said again. “See how

no cause to be jealous, then Nicholas would act the same as

I hoped.

she

“Piper?”

My mouth immediately shut.

When he spotted me, he came closer

been looking everywhere for you,

from her book, but not to properly greet Nicholas. Instead, she set me

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got the message

something from me, Nicholas?’

surprised by the question. “I just wanted to

with warmth. Maybe things weren’t so different

to take a walk with you,” I said and stood from the table. Veronica’s eyes dropped

arm for me,

seemed normal. We chatted about this and that. Nicholas squeezed my arm and

Bridget. I knew that I needed to, as Veronica suggested, to clear the air between us. And I wanted to speak with him about what he

I had to be brave, but it just felt so good to spend time with Nicholas, that

have to do, so during a lull in our conversation, I open my mouth and say,

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