The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0507

Chapter 0507 I I stared into Julian’s eyes, and he stared I back at me. For a moment, nothing existed except the two of us and the ! ocean behind us, the waves cresting and I smashing into the sandy shore.

“IT’hope you mean that,” I said. I so desperately wanted him to be happy, and I knew he never would be, not so long as he was tied up with Bridget. Whatever her feelings for Nicholas, and whatever became of them, even if they separated, Bridget would never be the right girl for Julian.

She was too selfish. She cared about her own needs and not about those around her. Julian could likely be a good supportive boyfriend, but he had sacrificed too much to try to be there for Bridget and her needs. A good, healthy couple needed to build each other up, not lift one at the expense of the other.

Lo Tarball , “Ido,” Julian said.

\ Relief flooded through me. I was cautious.

Julian had seemed like he had been I moving on before only to backslide I straight back into Bridget when she I called for him. But this time seemed I different. The confidence in his eyes was the Julian I knew, and though he was a good actor, I didn’t get the sense he was hiding something from me.

We looked at each other for a few moments more, the span of a few quickening heartbeats — though I didn’t know why my heartbeat quickened.

Then, a boat engine sounded, and we looked toward the ocean in time to see the boat carrying Nicholas and Bridget return to the island.

We heard them before we saw them.

Bridget’s voice was shrill. “I swear, I didn’t know the storm was moving in!”

Lo Tarball I “Ido,” Julian said.

\ Relief flooded through me. I was cautious.

I Julian had seemed like he had been ' moving on before only to backslide I straight back into Bridget when she I called for him. But this time seemed I different. The confidence in his eyes was the Julian I knew, and though he was a good actor, I didn’t get the sense he was hiding something from me.

looked at each other for a few moments more, the span of a few

the ocean in time to see the boat carrying Nicholas and Bridget return to the

before

voice was shrill. “I swear, I

the boat first, walking ) with purpose down the dock. He was I pointedly not looking behind him, { ignoring Bridget who hopped off the boat

to go back

stomach twisted uncomfortably as her words forced my conscious mind back to that moment,

a rope

have so easily

She left me there. All so she could win

gleeful that she wrought what she sowed and her prize turned

unkind of me, but I could have died down in that

I to accept

me back to { myself and

Julian and I both stood. I don’t know why exactly. Maybe to see more. Maybe to make

to me. Nicholas, who hadn’t been coming

he made his way over to us as well, anger hot

Bridget asked me. “You know I was going to come back. And you forgive me for not being able to keep my word? That storm moved in so quickly, there was nothing

apology. i I ‘You forgive me,’ was nowhere near as I sincere as a simple, ‘I'm sorry.’ Ireally didn’t want to accept her apology, I butI felt off-kilter. Part of me still felt trapped back in that pit, even though I knew I was safe now. I

dark settled over Julian’s expression, and he

have to forgive you, Bridget,” Julian said. His tone was flat, annoyed. It was unusual to hear him talk like that. Usually the people he didn’t like earned sarcasm, not direct cutting remarks. “You should have just done the

was hearing such a reprimand, let alone I from Julian of all people. \ ( I Behind Bridget and Nicholas,

but I they carried the

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