Chapter 0588

Nicholas POV

I retumed to the living room where Veronica and Julian were helping Elva color. Jessica had already excused herself and gone to bed. Both Veronica and Julian looked up at me and their eyes went wide.

"What happened?" Julian asked.

I wanted to tell him but not in front of Elva.

Instead, I turned to Veronica. "Piper is just cleaning up in the kitchen. Please stay here until she comes out to you. Do you mind watching Elva?"

"I can do that," Veronica said.

"And me?" Julian asked.

I finally looked at him. I hoped he would be able to tell a lot from my flat gaze and my words," I'm going to speak with Bridget."

said and hopped

understood what I had meant

with you," Julian said, just

so entranced with her coloring. Then, with Julian in tow, we started toward the stairs. Along the way, I

uttered a new curse word. By the time we reached

front of Bridget's room, we knocked. She must have been expecting us - or at least, me. She opened the door right away. Her face was bright when she looked at

a word, she backed into the room and let

and I stood near the dresser, carefully avoiding the mess of clothes spilling out of her nearby suitcase. Bridget stood nearer

about?" Bridget asked. She continued to smile dully, a look of fake

I said. I was tired of all her games. It was past time to cut down to the

of bland confusion disappears from Bridget's face in a blink of the eye. Good. Maybe she would stop trying to bullshit us and give us

got to you, then," she said. "I

the hell did she mean by

in the kitchen,"

no wonder she had won so many acting awards. She shifted her entire

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