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 or

into or who would run into

began to pour into Julian’s phone near instantly.

path that lead us away from absolutely everyone. We didn’t even see a single servant until we reached

preparing two horses

bow as we approached.

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

surmise it all his own. Julian was like that, noticing things. I wondered if I had any secrets I

me quickly. Although in almost every memory, I had been by Nicholas’s side. I felt a bit hollow, not having

text. “Brian is in the security office.

were past the fence, we urged our horses to run.

he 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 might hurt the

wilderness, until he finally slowed at the edge of a clearing. I slowed my own horse beside

behind a tree line.

as large as the palace

have lived

who it was, when suddenly I felt

my breath away.

Julian noticed. “Piper?”

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