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

how would he

answer that

vague. “Julian’s been acting strange lately. He’s…

to wonder if he actually feels some kind of fondness for

lowered, Bitterness clipped his

woman’s

Recognizing Nicholas’s jealousy, I gently

side, especially when it came to kissing, I didn’t want him to think

my

Nicholas sighed. “But please be careful.

of my eye

two brothers. Did Nicholas truly steal her

it, a time from before even Nicholas and

that he wouldn’t have given any consideration to his

Perhaps there had been a misunderstanding. Julian might have misread the entire thing.

to walk, Nicholas’s arm moved from my arm to around my waist. He kept it there, gradually tugging me closer and closer to his side all the

where the candidates were

the candidates in their rooms and the servants done for the

before we reached the top and could

or they could

turned me toward

I recognized the sexy kind.

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