Chapter 0033

I’ll leave you two to chat, Julian said, tapping Nicholas on the shoulder.

Side by side Julian and Nicholas were of comparable height, with Nicholas an inch or two taller. They

looked similar too, though Julian’s features were somewhat softer than the hard angles of Nicholas’s

face.

Nicholas wasn’t saying anything. His expressionless gaze shifted from me to Julian and back again.

Julian laughed on his way out the door and well down the hallway. I could hear echoes of it long after he

was gone

I thought Nicholas might leave too. Had he only come to look for Julian? Despite Julian’s teasing, it seemed impossible that he would have been searching for me.

Yet when Julian left, Nicholas stayed in my doorway, fixed and unmoving like a statue.

Under his unwavering stare, I began to get nervous. Did he overhear something that Julian and I had

talked about? No, we’d been speaking softly. Even from the door, he wouldn’t have been able to hear.

what did

silence for as long

you want to

move, nor did not look away. “You are Julian

Did we?

were standing very close just

Nicholas would want to know what we had

I gave

were close during archery practice, as

noticed? I thought he had totally avoided so much as glancing at me during the archery event. Even

you two become so close?”

me from the Royal

I felt like I was walking along a dagger’s edge, and

further

I spent time with? Unless he was worried I had turned my machinations on

just now?” Nicholas’s

um… Julianer, Prince

matters to discuss.”

more. I would take my darkest secrets to the grave, but if he kept pushing, I was so nervous, I would surely give

been very good at denying Nicholas. At one point, I would have found a

to the sewing machines I’d had the maids set

the machines, the threads,

my

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