Chapter 0272

“It’s fine,” I said. “I got away before anything truly bad happened.” At his insistence, I then proceeded to explain exactly what Terry had done.

“He tried to touch you,” Nicholas growled. “He did touch you.”

“I left before anything could happen. I got myself out of that situation.”

After cleaning his wounds, I wrapped his hand in a sanitized white bandage. He held himself very still for me, though I could feel the tension buzzing under his skin.

The moment I fastened the bandage, securing it, he pulled me against his chest and wrapped his arms around me.

“I should have been there,” he said. “I’m sorry.”

“You can’t be there every minute. Besides he was so subtle about it, even Julian didn’t notice.”

Nicholas hummed, a deep rumble I felt in his chest against my ear.

like that was not the most tactful move. My standing is sure

“That is the most

the medicine and treatment only the palace could provide. Any loss of

let it help build my courage. I would protect Elva. I

not yet.

back,” I said. “We can’t risk

down into my neck, where he breathed me in for a long

very near my side, not touching but never more

the table, I noticed that Julian had moved into my

alight with mischief. “This makes it so much easier to

“Of course not,

seat,

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as I sat.

both of us.

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