Chapter 147: (Not) Confronting Leo

(Piper POV)

One strange advantage to having your soul crushed into a million pieces is that it gives you options in terms of where to focus your energy.

You can choose to focus on the heartbroken pieces, the jealous pieces, or the confused pieces. Alternatively, you can choose to focus on the pieces of your soul that are still desperately holding onto hope and faith and trust.

Or, you can do what I decide to do: you can focus on the angry pieces.

Truth be told, there is still a part of me that thinks that this is all just a set up by Ingrid. A masterful, brilliant set up. Another part of me isn’t sure what is going on, but it is nevertheless convinced that Leo loves me and that I can trust him.

Unfortunately, if I listen to those latter pieces right now —after everything that has happened not only today, not only during the past two weeks, but rather during the entire past two years— I know me. The confusion will take over and I will end up in a corner of the stairwell crying for