The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0527

I had been naked for a while, but suddenly, with Bridget here now, seeing us, I felt vulnerable and exposed in a way I had never been with just Nicholas alone.

I held up the towel, blocking as much of myself - and Nicholas - as I could.

"What the hell, Bridget?" Nicholas snapped. Where my first instinct had been

embarrassment, Nicholas's had been anger. He twisted me in his arms, hiding me behind the cover of his body as much as he could. "Since when don't you knock."

Instead of leaving, Bridget came more fully into the room and then casually closed the door behind her. She turned back around, facing us, and she glared at us both.

"I'd wanted to talk to you, Nicholas. Privately, I had no idea you'd have... company." The word dripped with venom.

"Leave, Bridget," Nicholas said, his voice lowering dangerously. "Now."

Bridget crossed her arms. "You both must think I'm some kind of idiot. I've suspected you have been screwing around for a while now."

"This isn't your business," I said, voicing my own displeasure. She seemed perfectly content to stand there and judge our nakedness. "At least tum your back!"

Bridget totally ignored me. She kept her glare leveled entirely at Nicholas. "As your friend, it's my job to tell you how absolutely careless you are being."

To be fair, we really should have made sure that door was locked. Yet I got the feeling that wasn't what Bridget had been talking about.

"Do you have any idea the damage you are doing to Piper by indulging her like this?" Bridget said. Her face was twisted with anger.

She seemed genuinely upset... on my behalf?

What the hell was she talking about?

"Piper isn't like us, Nicholas. She'll get the wrong idea," Bridget continued. "You shouldn't toy with someone who might start to dream of a better life than the terrible one that waits for her when she goes back home."

Wait. What the hell!

I said, just as Nicholas

me. "Then do you intend to marry her? Are you going to make her Luna? The Queen of

keep the towel covering

was fear. I didn't want Nicholas to answer some of Bridget's questions. I had my nice little fantasies. Hearing Nickolas shoot

kind of wilting flower who can't stand up for myself. I don't need anyone's ill-guided protection, Bridget.

a hypocrite. This woman left me in that pit on that jungle island, and now she was here, wanting to defend my heart from being

It was too much.

to

cared about

pitt

already apologized for that,"

"You never did."

"You forgave me!"

said we could

were clearly lying, bringing that up again." Bridget looked down her nose at me, like she was

do not have my best interest at heart. Whatever this is, it has nothing

Maybe she thought Nicholas was sleeping with the bottom of the barrel. Whatever she thought, she should just say that,

only trying to protect

I didn't believe her.

out, Bridget," Nicholas said with

harrumph in frustration. She pointed straight at me. "I'll leave

"Bridget," Nicholas snapped,

alone, who was to say she wouldn't be coming right back

was one thing to suspect, and entirely another to see it in action. Whatever else she thought of it, she now

my hand on Nicholas's chest, redirecting his

said. "I

with the anger on his face, a question raised in

me until the very end of the world. He'd muscle

And when his anger eased, he would come to regret