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!

said, just as Nicholas said, "I'm not toying

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

Finched forward, careful to keep the towel covering us,

Nicholas to answer some of Bridget's questions. I had

of wilting flower who can't stand up for myself. I don't need anyone's

in that pit on that jungle island, and now she was here, wanting to defend my

It was too much.

to

you," I snarled. "If you cared about me at all, you wouldn't have left me in

pitt

for that," she

"You never did."

"You forgave me!"

said we could move

up again." Bridget looked down her nose at me, like she was the one up on her high horse, taking the high road, and I was so far

I doubled down, "is that you do not have my best interest at heart.

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

to protect

I didn't believe her.

out, Bridget," Nicholas said

harrumph in frustration. She pointed straight at me. "I'll leave when she does. For both of

"Bridget," Nicholas snapped,

had the worst kind of headache. If Bridget really did leave alone, who was to say she wouldn't be coming right back with Nathan or a camera crew in tow? It was bad enough that she had seen this

Whatever else she thought of it, she now knew that Nicholas and I were intimate. That was dangerous knowledge for someone as conniving as her

hand on Nicholas's

okay," I said. "I

a question raised in

the very end of the world. He'd muscle Bridget out of

when his anger