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.

past, and then that incident. That has always been

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

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

that the therapist is right, that I have to keep pushing through the pain if I ever want to find my way back to wholeness. But at this moment, all

only realized it just now, but I have become more

He was always the one who protected me from the different dangers I was in in the

head to see what made her stop, I saw Asha standing in front of us

to the Alpha's office,"

noticed that you've been visiting my father's office more frequently recently. I think I know what you're doing," Asha's eyes narrowed suspiciously as she

"Alpha Theron told me

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

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

use anybody to save our Pack. You have no idea what Drystan had gone through to raise his Pack on his own

Astrid. Ever since

always been pre-occupied with you. Everyone could see how much you fawn over him to earn his favor. You are just like your

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

shouldn't I?

from the tree.