The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0584

Ever since I had been brought into this competition, I had been mocked, ridiculed, shoved around, bullied, set up, nearly killed, and threatened at every turn. Bridget's arrival hadn't helped the situation at all.

While I could blame the underground organization for much of what happened to me in the past, except for the bullying, Bridget's treatment of me had nothing to do with Jane or her evil group.

Bridget was mean to me, perhaps even mean enough to want me dead, just because she didn't like me.

I'd had enough.

Growling I pushed myself up to my feet and swiveled to confront Bridget head on. She didn't seem concerned at first. She just cocked her head and stared me down, almost looking bored.

"You have had it out for me since day one, Bridget, and I'm sick of it! It's one thing to talk about me behind my back, or to bully me within the competition. But since we've gotten to this island, you have taken everything way too far."

"Oh? Did I make you mad, Piper?" She straightened somewhat and began looking at me with more interest.

"Maybe you meant for me to be hurt or dead, maybe you didn't," I snapped. "But regardless, your actions could have led to my death!"

"You're still alive, aren't you?"

"No thanks to you!

Bridget narrowed her eyes. She stepped away from the fridge and closer into my space.

"I didn't realize I was supposed to be your babysitter," Bridget said in a low, vicious tone. "Can you really not take care of yourself, Piper?"

"I never did anything to you," I said, slowly coming to realize how deep her hatred for me rooted. "How could you be so unfeeling about my potential death? Or at least the very real threat to it?" Cóntent belongs to NovélDráma. OrgBelonging to NôvelDrama.Org.

"You should know," she snapped.

"Because of Nicholas?"

"You've turned both Nicholas and Julian against me," she said. "For years they were in love with me. They would do anything I told them to. They'd bend over backwards to make certain that I was happy and all my needs are met. But then you come around... and suddenly it's like I'm some nuisance!"

"I didn't do anything!"

"You existed, Piper! You stole Nicholas's attention and Julian's devotion. You ruined everything for me!*

I failed to see how she could see anything this way. She remained a well-known, well-liked high-paid actress. The only thing that threatened that livelihood was her actions occurring during the competition. So far the royal family had managed to protect her image, but she was working on destroying it herself.

"I didn't do shit," I shot back. *Feelings are feelings and they can't be controlled. You are the one who pushed both Julian and Nicholas away by acting so terribly. And you even threaten your own reputation by continuing to attack me."

"I shouldn't need to attack you!" she shouted. "I should already have what I want!"

"And what do you want?" It couldn't be Nicholas. Or Julian. She didn't seem to care about their feelings or their love. Whatever she wanted was something more tangible than that.

"I want to be Queen."

Oh. Yeah, okay.

God help me, it made me so sad to know that some of these women wanted to be queen so badly they would do anything for it. Bridget, it seemed, was not quite ready to kill for it. But she was ready to let me die for it.

We were not the same.

"I don't want to be queen," I told her.

She looked at me in disbelief. "You think I'm some kind of idiot. Everyone wants to be queen."

"Not me." I never had any use for politics, especially after Elva came into my life. The only things I truly cared about were my family, those close to me, and survival. Becoming queen was such a far off fantasy, that it mattered so little to me. I wouldn't care at all about it, except it directly affected Nicholas.