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?”

pace, breaking ahead of us, likely to block the path of

or who would run

to pour into

absolutely everyone. We didn’t even see a single servant

two horses

bow

the mare,” Julian said to me. “She’s gentler Better for a rider

own. Julian was like that, noticing

the stirrup and mounted the 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 a bit hollow, not having him here now.

from atop his horse, received another text. “Brian is in the security office.

we urged our horses to

and Nicholas had saved me from the boar, they had claimed that no one knew the area around the palace better than them. Julian continued to show that now, expertly avoiding fences and too–high cliffs that

until he finally slowed at the edge of a clearing. I

just behind a

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

must have lived

was, when suddenly I felt something, like a pull in my

my breath away.

Julian noticed. “Piper?”

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