The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0548

"My castle!" Elva cried out.

Bridget stopped walking. She looked down. She was standing over the camage, the complete and total

destruction of Elva's sand castle under Bridget's own feet.

"Oops," she said with a small laugh. "Sorry about that."

Elva looked at the scene with large, vulnerable eyes. The longer she looked, unblinking, the more her eyes filled with tears, until they finally spilled out and fell down her cheeks.Original from NôvelDrama.Org.

My heart absolutely broke at the sight.

Julian jumped up to his feet. "What the hell, Bridget? You can't watch where you were going? You had the entire beach to walk around this."

He was right. Aside from Elva's sandcastle, there were no other impediments either close to the water or nearer the deck.

*It was an accident, Julian," Bridget said. He smile slipped some. She looked annoyed now, especially as Elva began to cry in eamest.

I held Elva to me. She turned her face into my shoulder. Her tears made my shirt wet.

*You made Elva cry," Julian said. He wasn't smiling anymore either. His eyes were fierce, his words sharp.

Bridget crossed her arms over her chest. "It's just a sandcastle. What's the big deal?*

"Elva worked hard on it," I said. I struggled to keep my anger from my own voice.

Bridget snorted another laugh. "She didn't work that hard on it."

*She did!" I snapped.

Julian narrowed his eyes at Bridget. "What are you trying to say?"

Bridget ignored me. Her glare now was for Julian. "It wasn't even a good sandcastle. It looked like a sand mound. You can't expect me to go out of my way avoid every mound of sand."

Holding Elva against me, I immediately stood up. "Bridget," I said, my anger flaring.

She looked at me, surprised. Update first at NôvelDráma. Org.

*Be mean to me all you want, but leave Elva out of it. She's an innocent little girl," I said.

"What part of 'accident' don't you guys understand?" Bridget said. She whined a little, as if she was the victim here.

I didn't understand why she was acting like this, until I heard Nathan behind me.

"Don't record this," Nathan said.

I turned around to see Nathan pushing down a camera.

"Let them see!" Bridget called for Nathan. "Piper was being rude to me without cause."

Nathan shook his head.

Bridget didn't like being ignored. "Nathan. Turn the cameras back on." She stormed past Julian and me, rushing toward Nathan.

Nathan seemed set on disregarding her totally.

But then she raised her voice. "Nathan!"

Nathan turned to her and snapped, "You made a little girl cry!"

Bridget straightened, likely not having expected to be yelled at.

The camera crew left first with Nathan behind. Bridget, huffing slightly, hurried behind them. "Nathan! Nathan come back here and talk to me about this!"

With the cameras, Nathan, and Bridget's absence, Julian turned to me and sighed.

"They're trying to protect Bridget's image, but it's starting to crack," he said. "They can only keep the veneer up for so long. I'm such an idiot. I can't believe that I wore my blinders for so long about who she really is."

"You saw what you wanted to see," I said.

"The fantasy." He shook his head. "I was a fool."

Slowly, Elva's heavy tears slowly dried up. She continued to hold onto me as she turned her head on my shoulder and peeked at Julian

"You okay, kiddo?" Julian asked her.

She sniffled. "My castle."

*I'll help you build another one tomorrow," Julian said. "It will be even better than this one, okay?"

Elva didn't seem fully convinced. "...Okay." Her response was hesitant.

Julian gave me a sad sort of look, like he wasn't sure what to do to cheer Elva up. I wasn't sure either, but I figured getting out of the sand was a good idea.