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.

I said. “Stepping out like that was not the most tactful move. My

yourself,” Nicholas said. “That is the most

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

for me, and let it help build my courage. I

not

I said. “We can’t

breathed me in for a long moment. Then, reluctantly,

very near my side, not touching but never more than an inch

table, I noticed that Julian

with mischief. “This makes it so much easier to talk to Joyce.”

“Of course not,

old seat, which now placed me across the table

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then pushed me in as I sat.

glared at both

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