Chapter 0224

We made it five steps out into the hallway before Nicholas started asking questions.

“Did something happen?” he asked.

I didn’t want to lie to him, so I shrugged. “Nothing big.”

“Nothing big is still something.

With my hand on his arm, Nicholas dictated how fast and slow we walked. He slowed now, making it

clear he would stretch this out if he needed to. He was worried about me, I could see from the look in his

eye. He wasn’t going to let me off the hook easily.

Softer, he asked, “Did Julian do something?”

“No,” I said. Julian had stopped himself before he could. That was assuming that leaning in for a kiss

had been what he was actually doing, and not just teasing me. “I don’t know. It was confusing.”

“Tell me.”

I wanted to. I needed to talk to someone about what happened, and who knew Julian better than.

Nicholas? But I was unsure. With their rivalry, and Nicholas’s jealousy, if he knew that Julian had tried to

would

no answer that would actually

“Julian’s been acting strange lately. He’s… softer around

wonder if he actually

voice lowered, Bitterness clipped his

woman’s heart. Especially

Nicholas’s jealousy, I gently corrected him. While I

Nicholas’s envious side, especially when it came to kissing, I didn’t want him to think I was

misplacing my heart.

please be careful. He’ll try to steal

glanced at Nicholas out of the corner of my eye and thought of the mysterious Bridget who had once

the two brothers. Did Nicholas truly steal her away

to imagine it, a time from before even Nicholas and I were together. Could Nicholas have

any consideration to his brother’s

still couldn’t imagine Nicholas that way. Perhaps there had been a misunderstanding. Julian might

from my arm to around my waist. He kept it there, gradually tugging me closer and closer to his side all the way to the stairwell

the candidates

by now, the candidates in their

me halfway up the stairwell, before we reached

door or they could

turned me toward

was the jealousy I recognized

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