The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0436

Early the next morning, I awoke to the sound of loud and persistent knocking on my door. It was so early, Charlotte hadn’t even arrived yet and the curtains were still drawn over the windows.

The guards were talking with the morning visitor, who was nearly shrieking in her reply. It was Bridget. She sounded upset.

I checked on Elva, she was still sound asleep. Then I rolled out of bed. I threw on a silk robe and rushed to the door.

The moment, Bridget saw me, the tears began to flow down her cheeks. “Oh, Piper! I have to talk to you at once.”

Fortunately, at that same moment, Charlotte was approaching us down the hallway. I asked her to keep an eye on Elva, and went with Bridget to her own room where we could speak privately.

Bridget plucked a handkerchief from her nightstand and dabbed at her tear tracks. She was still wearing the same clothes she had worn at the party. Had she been up all night?

Where? And… with whom?

“What happened?” I asked. “Are you alright?”

As much as I distrusted Bridget, I would never wish her harm. With the underground organization out there, and their teleportation powers still unchecked, if Bridget had been out alone, she could have run into anyone.

the royal guard. Nicholas and Julian’s personal guard couldn’t possibly be

then, I smelled it. A touch of

Oh no.

stomach totally dropped out.

Couldn’t.

to me last night,” Bridget said. “He told me he had been in love with me most of

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relationship with you, and yet he

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I had thought he was making progress in moving on from Bridget. Small steps, sure. Baby steps,

should have been the final nail in the coffin, when she’d used him to try to

move forward. To tell Bridget his feelings, receive her firm rejection, and then

wasn’t otherwise

watched me. “You are handling this news quite well… Admittedly, if the man I was dating told another woman he has loved her all his life,

him about it later, sure,”

made more of an effort, or she might have suspected that we weren’t actually dating.

mean, I am pissed as hell,” I said. “But…” I tried to think of some excuse for my lack of true upset. “It is unfortunately the nature of the competition.