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.

my attention. She recovered quickly this

I said to Julian, “My daughter is frail and sick

a finger to his chin. “Piper, you realize this is the royal

“Yes, but-

wouldn’t you have access to

I froze.

of that. Would the royal family truly be willing

are under the care of my family. We wouldn’t simply stand by and let you or

Turning away a sick child would surely be bad

be horrible, be

so generous with what were

know

roguish light

gold,

different than I was in the Academy,”

a trickster then for sure, constantly teasing or performing elaborate pranks. Nicholas, the more serious one, had always accused him

department had been called in.

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