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.

my dark past, and then that incident. That has always been our

in my mind that true healing could

both physically and emotionally, but

I have to keep pushing through the 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

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 realize that my body had learned to

that is because he was always there for me during dangerous situations. He was always the one who protected me

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. "Where

to the Alpha's office,"

recently. I think I know what you're doing," Asha's

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

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 him for your own gain." "Excuse me!" I blurted out

broke their alliances with you. That's the

I exclaimed. "Drystan and I will never use anybody to save our Pack. You have no idea what Drystan had gone through to raise his Pack

Ever since you

much you fawn over him to earn his favor. You are just like your mother,

attack. "You don't bring my

I? The

the tree.