Chapter 0590

Bridget blanched. "What did you call me?"

Ronan clutched at his head as he forced himself upward into a sitting position. "Beloved?"

"You hit your head too hard there, merfolk creep," Bridget said.

Ronan's eyes grew wide. "How can you say that, Bridget? After everything we've shared?"

"Shared? I don't even know you!" Bridget snapped. "I don't know who you think I am but you've got the wrong idea."

"But, Bridget -" Ronan began once more.

Bridget looked straight at Nicholas. "This guy must be a stalker."

Given Bridget's fame, it was possible, I supposed, that Ronan had some kind of delusion that Bridget and he were in love and that he had to prove something. But Julian's digging showed that Ronan and Bridget did know each other for real. They had even been something like friends. Cóntént from Nóveldráma.org

I glanced around, curious who else might be buying this act. No one seemed truly convinced. Nicholas held me around the waist with one arm, while he openly glared at Bridget.

The guard stood close to Ronan, ready to move in at a moment's notice.

Veronica gave Bridget a flat look.

"Whatever you think about me," Bridget said, "you can't think that I'd actually want someone this pathetic."

Ronan's face crumpled, stricken. "This can't be real. You said

"I didn't say anything to you." Bridget said quickly, cutting her off.

"Let the man finish," Nicholas said.

Ronan looked back at Nicholas. His face was crinkled with upset. Bridget, it seemed, was absolutely ripping his heart out. If he hadn't just almost killed me, I might have felt bad for him. As it was, I couldn't care less about his heartbreak. I just wanted the truth.

to realize something - perhaps the precarious position he was in. He was trapped. There would be

would this knowledge encourage him to tell the truth? Or would he lie to protect

me that for us to be together, she needed

She stepped closer to him. "How

believe that we had a chance? And now you are acting like we don't even know each other? What is wrong with you, Bridget?

"We made no vows!"

rest of the household. Selma

"I will

his head. He didn't seem like he was going to say

our suspicions that Bridget, despite her protests, had something to do

with Ambassador Zale and five merfolk

guards grabbed Ronan under the arms and forcibly lifted

Ambassador Zale said, speaking

my back, even as he tumed toward Zale. "I'm

about this," Bridget snapped. Her perfect veneer

suspicion, then back

believe so," Nicholas

"Nicholas!"

joined me out here... if she hadn't heard me and dropped that vase on Ronan's head,

realized I didn't know where Elva was. I glanced up at

"Elva?"

safe," he told me softly. "She found me and Julian and told us to find you. She's with Julian

and I exhaled deeply. Good. She was safe. I could relax

Ronan is captured, I can assure you that he will never bother you or yours again, Prince Nicholas." He side-eyed Bridget. "Would you

handle one of their own kind, but to give them Bridget was an entirely different matter. That Bridget was a werewolf was reason enough. That

the global stage. I

will take care

leave then. I intend

to hear that, Ambassador.

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