Chapter 0211

At once, Nicholas and I scrambled to our feet. Nicholas blocked Julian’s view as I readjusted myself, fixing my bra. When I was put together enough, Nicholas checked me over once before standing aside.

Out lips were red from kissing. Our clothes were wrinkled, and our hair disheveled. But there was nothing to be done for that now.

Julian looked between us, a devilish look in his eyes. “Did you find anything of interest in the closet?”

I blushed fiercely. Even my neck and chest burned.

I’m also curious why your lips are so red,” Julian continued. His teasing, it seemed, would be relentless. Yet under those joking questions, his voice held the tiniest bit of edge.

My initial thought was that it could be jealousy. With Julian, however, there was no way. Disapproval, then? That seemed unlikely too. 4

Either way, I needed to redirect his focus before I died of embarrassment.

I searched for some way to change the subject. I found it when I noticed the rolled up papers Julian was

carrying under his arm.

“What’s that?” I asked.

Julian glanced down at the papers as if he had forgotten he was holding them. “Should we return to

your room? I’ll explain there.”

Nodding, we all walked back to my room. Nicholas stayed at my side, but a foot or so of distance

separated us now. It felt like he was miles away,

Back in my room, Julian began speaking again.

“I heard about the appearance of your twin,” Julian said.

“Jane,” I said.

“Jane,” he repeated.

“How did you find out that Charlotte saw her?” Nicholas asked. He looked at Mark. “Did you tell him?”

“No, Sir,” Mark said at once.

Julian rolled his eyes. “I have ears everywhere.” He paused. “Also, Brian saw her too.”

“What?” We all straightened in alarm.

“Where did he see her?” Nicholas asked.

replied. “He suspected her at once and subtly followed her. But when he seemed

as what happened

her. “I thought as much.” To me, he added, “I worried

he had heard of a sighting, as well. So while

face burned again. Julian enunciated protect in

different.

my throat. “What

of paper from

swatches of fabrics that

Julian placed down one of the papers and unrolled it. It was

all looked like lines and boxes

looking at?” I

“is the first floor of the

small box that was to indicate a room. “This blueprint includes some

secret passageways.”

quickly leaned over the blueprints to

we can figure out where Jane is hiding.

He crossed his arms. “Aren’t these

you access them?”

glance, his smile mocking. “You sure you want to know

appreciate my

guessed. It generally was, with Julian. He liked

push the rules.

and his eyes sparkled,

for these to be out of the

attention returned to his brother. He sighed. “I’ll take them back when we’re

perhaps, you don’t actually wish to catch Jane and

frowned hard but stayed

“That’s what I thought.”

the blueprints. Julian would point

of where it connected to another

in the corner here, where Brian lost sight of Jane, leads down into the kitchens,”

said.

where I saw her,” Charlotte added. “Then I chased her down into the cellars, and

disappeared.”

found the stairs leading down

a separate roll of

said as he peeked into the rolls, trying to find the correct one.

its own? Oh, here it

and immediately we noticed a secret passage leading out

cellar.

does it go?” I

passages, that had lines leading to where they connected, this passageway

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