Chapter 0036

Her fury, which I had caused to heighten for a moment, quickly smoothed out again. Her grin returned,

wide and sharp.

“I should have known you were the one who made that sad little gift. It was so simple, so… fashion-

backwards. I had been ready to apologize for its very existence, before the prince made his small mix up.”

Nhad spent hours crafting that wrist guard for the prince. I had purposefully made the design simplistic, knowing Nicholas would prefer it that way. Flashy clothes were never his style.

That Kirsten didn’t know that only showed how little she understood the prince she chased.

“If you wanted him to know it was from you, you should have given it to him directly,” Kirsten said. “That

you didn’t only shows that you knew he would reject it. Just like he’ll reject you, very soon.”

“You shouldn’t have taken credit –”

“It’s too late, Piper. No one will ever believe you made it. Not now. Not against my word. Although…” She

tapped her finger to her chin and looked at Lena. “I think I know a fitting punishment.”

“Oh?” Lena lifted a brow.

Prince Nicholas, Kirsten said. “Gifts that I would then

eventually. But

graces.”

then I will

down in the dungeons. My

crunch sounded from behind me, in

shifted. She lost her spiteful arrogance

guards continued to hold me, but their grip

searing into mine. “Then I can get

be doing no such

knew that firm,

She straightened.

push through the

as he took in the scene before him, looking

me, to Kirsten, to Lena standing

away

Nicholas’s hand. She pointed at one of the guard.

meanie!”

The

the girl, then looked up at Nicholas,

asked. “You heard

me. They’d held me roughly for some time

released me so

danger of falling. I

so, Nicholas closed the distance between us in a heartbeat. He placed a steadying hand on

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