Chapter 73: Faking Love

I watched his back as he was leaving, and pondered what he just said.

'I was just passing by.'

That was a lie.

Tallis was hiding something, I knew he was. There was a familiarity about him that I just couldn't shake. It was this air of calm and cold that he carried. I had felt it once before and only with one other person.

But could it be?

I had asked him numerous times and each time he refuted my claims. He was not the somber prince I knew.

So why did they both carry the same aura?

I shook my head thinking I had lost my damn mind. First the fake Ciana and now this. My problems and questions kept piling up with each passing day.

It didn't matter now though. I had more important matters to attend to.

My mind was turning fast. Fake Ciana had professed her undying love to Warren. This was what I had been hoping for. Phase one of the plan was complete and now it was time to move onto phase two.

Whoever Tallis was, he could wait.

I turned on my heel ready to walk back to where fake Ciana and Warren had been, but I slammed into a warm wall.

I stumbled a few steps back before a pair of strong arms came out and caught me.

"You okay there, Ciana?"

Warren helped me to steady myself.

"Yeah," I looked up at him. "Where is the other Ciana? What happened? I had to leave because..."

My voice trailed off as the words got stuck in my throat. I didn' t want to worry Warren. He had a tendency to somehow shift blame of every bad thing that happens onto himself, especially when it regarded me.

I often thought that he had too much honor at times. I wished he would be a little less chivalrous.

"Because?" He pressed.

"It's nothing. Now tell me what's going on with her?"

Warren stepped closer, crossing into that imaginary bubble l had around me.

"What happened, Ciana?" His eyes held mine.

"I told you nothing."

"It doesn't sound like nothing. Your heart's racing, you have that little nervous nose twitch you do when you're hiding something. So spill it."

I stood still for a moment in complete shock. "How do you know about the twitch?"

He rolled his eyes. "I notice everything about you, Black. Now spill it."

I let out a sigh and bit down on my lip. "Hawke came by."

heard about Hawke a few times, both from me catching him up on the important players in the pack, and

His voice was

may have tried to harass me, a little bit," I blurted out. "But he was drunk

eyes darkened. "I need to have a

this, if it was Theo, he probably

out and grabbed his arm. "No need to. And

"Tallis?"

aren't talking about Hawke. We are talking about you

look overtook Warren's face. My heart immediately dropped and I felt all the

elope with

the balls of my feet. "This is great news! You

happy for the progress. But

from my

her. I told her I loved her too and told her I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her.

stepped up toward him and placed my hand on his chest right above his heart. I could feel the strong thumping on my palm. It was racing and I didn't know whether it

guilty for this. If anything, all of this

I told you this many times before and now I will tell you again. What you are doing for me is a service that I

me, waiting for me

has taken my identity and is trying to take over my home. This is wrong, and I will claim my name

that

to be someone else for the rest of their lives. So

tell Warren's expression was softer.

her, but by then, at least she would have the freedom to carry on her

long breath that fanned my face. His scent of pine and

a

"Do what?"

it." He tucked away a

light of the situation. "I'm just stating the fact."

away from him. "Shall we?"

nodded and we walked away from the garden.

ceremony would be in two days. That

for the alliance to go through, both Luther and Ciana would need to present. If Ciana suddenly went missing due to her recent nuptials, then no alliance would be formed. Raymond would

the plan. The other

steal the sacred artifact. Well, was it really stealing if it belonged to my parents? Depends on which

over everything for the past two hours. We made sure there

meet her

"I need to keep up appearances, right?"

the table. "We can convene

come out a little light

go, you know that

have joked about it," I apologized sincerely.

forgiven," he smiled.

though. Unfortunately, for the sake of our

He sighed, "Okay."

said our goodbyes and went

Warren on board really did take a lot of the pressure off my back. He made

take

had flipped upside down when I was sent to the royal palace, and now returning home my world had flipped yet again. But like my

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