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.

dark past, and then that incident. That has always

the therapist's words echoing in my mind that true healing could only come through facing traumas head-on, through giving voice to the

physically and emotionally, but the therapist insisted it

therapist is right, that I have to keep pushing through the pain if I ever want to find my way back to

been here, maybe things would have been easier for me. I have only realized it just now, but I have become more comfortable and relaxed whenever Drystan is around. I didn't

was always there for me during dangerous situations. He was always the one who protected me from the different dangers I was 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. "Where are you going?" Asha

going to the

been visiting my father's office more frequently recently. I think I know what you're doing," Asha's eyes narrowed

in confusion. "Alpha Theron told me me to visit him in

please," Asha scoffed. "We all know you only hang around my father just to get your hands on his money. You are nothing but a parasite, latching onto

since all the 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

to save our Pack. You have no idea what Drystan had

Astrid. Ever since

You are just like your mother, a gold-digger and a slut No wonder why people

sudden shift to this more personal attack. "You don't bring my dead mother

I? The apple

far from the tree.