Reclaiming My Broken Luna by Selene Souchon

Chapter 117: Gold-Digger

Astrid's POV

"Astrid, are you alright?" Nova's soft voice entered my ears as soon as I stepped out of the therapist's office.

I shook my head softly in reply as I held on her arm tight.

Every time that I go for a session with a therapist, I always leave feeling raw and exposed afterward.

The carefully constructed walls I had built around my emotions were always methodically dismantled, one brick at a time, by the therapists's well-thought questions.

Nova wrapped a hand around me to comfort me. "Don't worry, you're done already. You can finally relax," Nova whispered soothingly as she helped me out of the room.

I could only nod my head and swallow hard at her words. I always feel weak and out of myself after my therapy sessions.

With the therapist's keen insights and probing questions, she always got into the buried feelings that I had desperately tried to bury and tuck away from the deepest corners of my mind.

It's her job to unearth those buried emotions, forcing me to confront the grief that I have been suppressing.

and then that

mind that true healing could only

painful process, draining me both physically and emotionally, but the therapist insisted it

pain if I ever want to find my way back to wholeness. But at this moment, all I ever craved was an escape, a chance to just retreat and gather the pieces of

just now, but I have become more comfortable and relaxed whenever Drystan is around.

that is because he was always there for me during dangerous situations. He was always the one who protected me from the different dangers I was in in

stopped in her tracks, making me stop, too; when I raised my head to see what made her stop, I saw Asha standing in front of us with hatred in her eyes.

are going to the

I think I

me me to visit

you only hang around my father just to get your hands on his money. You are

Alphas broke their alliances with you. That's the reason why you came here, isn't it? You are just using my father's power to keep your Pack afloat," Asha said, her

You have no idea what Drystan had gone through to raise his Pack on

Ever

You are just like your mother, a gold-digger and a slut

widened, taken aback by Asha's sudden shift to this more personal attack. "You don't bring my

I? The

far from the tree.