Chapter 0446

“She told me Nicholas was the only one for her.”

My heart cracked down the middle, just as my stomach churned. I ached for Julian’s pain, while my wolf stirred within me, jealousy raging.

“I’m sorry,” I told him.

“I shouldn’t feel so surprised,” Julian said. Both sets of fingers combed through his hair this time. “It was so similar to last time, I thought perhaps for a moment that I was trapped in some kind of curse.”

The curse had a name: Bridget.

“I feel so uncertain. So… confused. Heartbroken. I don’t understand.” Julian began to ramble his words, another action so unlike him. “I hate feeling this way. I’m always so sure. But I don’t understand. Piper, help me understand.”

He looked at me and the intensity in his gaze gave me pause.

“Why would she change her mind so quickly?” he asked.

tell him what I honestly thought would be to blatantly badmouth the woman he loved. And though I certainly thought her deserving of it, I wasn’t so certain that

thought Bridget knew from the start which of the two brothers she had desired, and merely strung Julian along. What I didn’t know was

clearly in love with Bridget, or what he thought

She could have anyone she wanted: movie actors, musicians… anyone. Why mess around with Julian at

you. But how could that

know, Julian,” I said. I wouldn’t badmouth Bridget for his sake, but I would tell him the truth of what I felt for him. That felt safer, and maybe was more of what he needed to hear anyway. “But I do know that you deserve better. True love doesn’t play these

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don’t know anymore. For it

she told you last night, and I don’t want to know. It’s none of my business. But she’s not treating you right, Julian. That I promise you.”

know that?

I asked. His defeated tone was triggering my own impatience. “You know she treats you bad, and you are allowing it. You are

okay? I don’t

else to do or say, and he didn’t know either. We both turned back to the railing and looked up at the

said again, in the quiet of the

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