Chapter 0446

“She told me Nicholas was the only one for her.”

My heart cracked down the middle, just as my stomach churned. I ached for Julian’s pain, while my wolf stirred within me, jealousy raging.

“I’m sorry,” I told him.

“I shouldn’t feel so surprised,” Julian said. Both sets of fingers combed through his hair this time. “It was so similar to last time, I thought perhaps for a moment that I was trapped in some kind of curse.”

The curse had a name: Bridget.

“I feel so uncertain. So… confused. Heartbroken. I don’t understand.” Julian began to ramble his words, another action so unlike him. “I hate feeling this way. I’m always so sure. But I don’t understand. Piper, help me understand.”

He looked at me and the intensity in his gaze gave me pause.

“Why would she change her mind so quickly?” he asked.

honest answer, but I held myself back. To tell him what I honestly thought would be to blatantly badmouth the woman he loved. And though I certainly

the two brothers she had desired, and merely strung Julian along. What I didn’t know

what he thought was love. It would be so easy

anyone she wanted: movie actors, musicians… anyone. Why

mess with you. But how could that be true? I wasn’t even around when they were

badmouth Bridget for his sake, but I would tell him the truth of what I felt for him. That felt safer, and maybe was more of what he needed to hear anyway. “But I do know that you deserve better. True

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anymore.

to know. It’s none of my business. But she’s not treating

and low. “I know that, Piper. You think I don’t know that?

His defeated tone was triggering my own impatience. “You know she treats you bad, and you are allowing it. You are enabling it, Julian! How can you continue to love her?”

okay?

know either. We both turned back to the railing and looked

said again, in the quiet

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