Chapter 0103

“How do you plan on getting to this mansion you mentioned?” I asked, once we were out in the hall.

Julian’s Beta, Brian, fell in step behind us. “We can’t take that flashy car again, if we actually want to keep

it secret this time.”

“It would be too conspicuous to drive. Even if we escaped the grounds undetected, the bad guys would

quickly notice our arrival.”

“What’s your plan, then?”

He glanced at me. “Can you ride a horse?”

I haven’t ridden since the academy, but I thought I could still manage somehow. So I nodded.

“Good. We’ll have to sneak there though. Brian?”

Brian widened his stride to walk at Julian’s side. “Yes, Prince Julian?”

“Run interference, yeah?”

course.” Brian increased his pace, breaking ahead of us, likely to block the

onlookers we might run into or who

into Julian’s

were able to follow a path that lead us away from absolutely everyone. We didn’t even see a single servant until

preparing two horses for ride.

said with a bow as

Julian said to me. “She’s gentler Better for a rider

was like that, noticing

mare. Once I was in the saddle, my horse–riding days returned to me quickly. Although in almost every memory, I had been by Nicholas’s side. I felt

atop his horse, received another text. “Brian is in the security office. We have to go now to

we urged our horses to run. I rode in Julian’s

no one knew the area around the palace better than them. Julian continued to show that now, expertly avoiding fences and too–high cliffs

for an hour or so, seeing nothing but wilderness, until he finally slowed at the edge of a clearing. I slowed my own horse beside his, until

hidden just behind a

clearing stood a massive mansion, almost as large as the palace itself. Someone very

must have lived

when suddenly I felt something, like

my breath

Julian noticed. “Piper?”

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