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.

recovered quickly this time, thank God, and

frail and sick often. I have to work hard to care

his chin. “Piper, you realize

“Yes, but-

are here, wouldn’t you have access to all

I froze.

Would the royal family truly be

the care of

him. Turning away a sick child would

be horrible, be said,

being so generous with what were

know the

roguish light danced in his

than gold, with no

different than I was in the Academy,”

pranks. Nicholas, the more serious one, had always

bomb in the teacher’s lounge, and in a panic, the fire department had been called in. Julian had

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