The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0420

“Wonderful,” Bridget said with an even bigger smile than before.

It was a beautiful smile, all pearly white teeth. She looked every bit the part of the a–list actress. Her makeup was on point. Even her hair was perfectly styled. I wondered how many stylists traveled with her. It wasn’t unheard of to have a team around here. Many other

contestants did as well.

–

“I’m so happy that oh.” Bridget’s gaze snags on where Nathan is speaking with Jessica. They both look terribly unhappy. “I better go deal with that. We’ll talk more later.”

She quickly walks away. As she approaches Nathan and Jessica, her presence immediately lightens the mood of both of them. Those frowns turn right into smiles.

Maybe it’s not such a wonder that Nathan is following her lead, after all. She really does know what she’s doing, in acting as well as deescalating situations. An impressive feat.

Nicholas approaches me next. I see him coming a long way off, but for Nicholas, I have no desire to run away, even with my heart still sore from the scene we shared together. That wasn’t his fault, and I was not about to blame him for it.

He stepped right up beside me, as we both watched Bridget work her magic over Nathan and Jessica. I expected him to restart our last conversation. We hadn’t finished talking when Bridget interrupted us.

“So what did you think of my idea?”

brow together, confused. “What was your

twitched into a frown. “Didn’t Bridget tell you? About finding a role for

made it sound like she had come it all on her own. She hadn’t

up

with

Yeah, she did mention that,” I said, unsure whether I should bring

it was simply a misunderstanding on my part. Maybe she did mention Nicholas and I just forgot. I’d have a hell of a time proving otherwise. And I doubted, deep in my heart, Nicholas would believe me if I went

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could have been a misunderstanding. I had to hold

as I could, I couldn’t quite

about Bridget. I kept trying to ignore my gut feelings but they keep piling up time

just two different people with differing, incompatible

she really was up to something.

path. It had to be in my