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.

attention. She recovered quickly this time,

is frail and sick often. I have to work hard to care for her. I can’t waste time

to his chin. “Piper, you realize this is

“Yes, but-

have access to all the royal resources? Including

I froze.

truly be willing to use their

“While you are here, you are under the

sick child would surely be bad for public

be horrible, be

was be being so generous with what were

to know

laughed. A roguish light danced in his

gold, with no

different than I was in

Nicholas, the more serious one, had always accused him of

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

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