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."

By now, he probably has heard about Hawke a few times, both from me catching him up on the important players in the pack, and from the girl he just spent

was tight

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

to

compare Warren and Theo in my mind. In a situation like this, if it was Theo, he probably would just beat

grabbed his arm. "No need to. And besides,

"Tallis?"

aren't talking about Hawke. We are talking about you and fake me. What did

heart immediately dropped and I felt all

elope with me."

to my body and I bounced on the balls of my feet. "This is great news! You

happy for the progress. But

from my face. "I

and I just lied to her. I told her I loved her too and told her I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. What kind of man

feel the strong thumping on my palm.

feeling guilty for this. If anything, all of this was my burden to

before and now I will tell you again. What you are doing for

his gaze on me, waiting

taken my identity and is trying to take over my home. This is wrong,

I want that for

that she didn't want this life. I could tell. No one would want to be someone else for the rest of their lives. So you're helping her. You're helping her

tell Warren's expression

remove the guilt from your heart. You're helping me and her. She might feel bad once she finds out you don't really love her, but by then, at least she would have the freedom

forehead against mine and let out one long breath that fanned my face. His scent of

away he offered me a small smile. "How do you do that?"

"Do what?"

to say it." He tucked away a stray piece of hair that had come out from under my

of

stepped away from him. "Shall we?"

we walked away from the garden.

would be in two days. That was when we would have the

Ciana suddenly went missing due to her recent nuptials, then

was stage one of the plan. The other stage

stealing if it belonged to my

sat opposite me. We had been going over everything for the past two hours.

still meet her

"I need to keep up appearances, right?"

the table. "We can

out a little light hearted but he didn't take it lightly.

that right? I can tell

about it," I apologized

he

to believe you two are madly in love, though. Unfortunately, for the sake of our plan, it would be better for you to

He sighed, "Okay."

our goodbyes and went

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

to take

long ago, my world 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 father had always taught me, I would brave the storm. Because that was exactly what us Blacks did. We moved with tides and rolled with

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