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

for as long as

to talk?”

did not look away.

Did we?

standing very close just now,” Nicholas

were talking, but if I admitted that, Nicholas would want to know what we had been talking about. As far as I

gave

during archery

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

two become

me

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

further into disfavor

already hated me. Why did he care who I spent time with? Unless he was worried I had turned my machinations on Julian since he himself had

just now?”

my growing nerves. “No, I, um… Julianer, Prince Julian and I had some

matters to discuss.”

more. I would take my darkest secrets to the grave, but if he kept

Nicholas. At one point, I would have found a way to

to the sewing machines I’d had the maids

over the machines, the

my

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