Chapter 0010

But Julian would know, because he was there.

In another life, being near Nicholas would have given me enough reason to want to stay.

But he’d made his feelings about me clear. And I had other priorities.

My gaze slid to Elva, playing with her dolls at the foot of the bed.

“I don’t want to play house,” I said. “Nor do I want to partake in this game of undercutting nobles and

chasing princes.”

I had been away from nobility for a long time, but I hadn’t forgotten their cutthroat politics, where an action as small as selecting the wrong utensil at dinner could start a blood feud. Backstabbing, betrayals, pretending to be nice just to make someone vulnerable…

The memories made my already tired body even more exhausted.

and immediately reclaimed my attention. She recovered quickly this time, thank God, and

daughter is frail and sick

chin. “Piper, you realize this

“Yes, but-

you are here, wouldn’t you have access to all the royal resources? Including our medical staff and

I froze.

that. Would the royal family truly be willing to use

disbelief on my face. “While you are here, you are under the care of my family. We wouldn’t simply stand by and let you

away a sick

be

was be being so generous with

to know the

light danced in his eyes.

gold, with no flecks of

than I was in the Academy,” he

pranks. Nicholas, the more serious one, had always accused him of never taking anything

lounge, and in a panic, the fire department had been called in. Julian had laughed and said it wasn’t a real fire. He couldn’t

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