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.

answer, but I held myself back. To tell him what I honestly thought would be to blatantly badmouth the woman he loved. And though

it was, I thought Bridget knew from the start which of the two brothers

He was so clearly in love with Bridget, or what he thought was love. It would be so easy to pretend for a

wanted: movie actors, musicians… anyone. Why mess around with

my mind, she’s doing it to mess with you. But how could that be true? I wasn’t even around when

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

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anymore. For

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.”

You think I don’t know that? But I’m

tone was triggering my own impatience. “You know she treats you bad,

okay? I don’t know…”

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

sorry,” I said again, in the quiet of the

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