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?”

his pace, breaking ahead of us, likely to block the path of any guards

might run into or who would run into us.

into Julian’s phone

lead us away from absolutely everyone. We

two horses for

Highness,” they said with a bow as we approached. They’d been expecting us.

me. “She’s gentler Better for a rider

the last time I rode, but he’d seemed to surmise it all his own. Julian was like that, noticing things. I wondered if I had any secrets I could keep from him. He already

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

“Brian is in the security office. We have to go now to avoid being seen on the

his lead, we rode our horses out of the paddock. Once we were past the fence, we urged our horses to run. I rode in Julian’s shadow as he expertly maneuvered the terrain.

from the boar, they had claimed that no one knew the area around the

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

hidden just behind a

mansion, almost as

have lived

asked Julian who it was, when suddenly I felt something, like a pull in

stole my breath away.

Julian noticed. “Piper?”

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