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 as I could manage before

to talk?”

not look

Did we?

close just

had to, with 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

I gave a

during archery

had noticed? I thought he had totally avoided so much as glancing at me during the archery event. Even when I had been with his group, he hadn’t said one word to

you two become

he remembered me from the Royal

felt like I was walking

send me further

who I spent time with?

doing just now?”

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

matters to discuss.”

he wouldn’t ask 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 give

from me and to the sewing machines I’d had the

the threads, and

my

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