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.

did he

long

to talk?” I

didn’t move, nor did not look away. “You are

Did we?

standing very close just now,”

how softly we were talking, but if I admitted that, Nicholas would want to know what we had been talking about. As far as I was concerned, Nicholas could never, ever know

gave a non–committal

close during archery practice, as

me during the archery event. Even when I had been with his group, he

you two become so

he remembered me

a smile, but it was uneasy. I felt like I was walking along a dagger’s edge, and

me further into disfavor with

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

that what you were doing just now?” Nicholas’s eyes narrowed, his focus intensifying.

“No, I, um… Julianer, Prince Julian and I had

matters to discuss.”

wouldn’t ask more. I would take my darkest secrets to the grave, but if he kept pushing, I was so nervous, I would

one point, I would

me and to the sewing machines I’d had the maids set up

the threads, and the swatches

my

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