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.

out like that was not the most tactful move. My standing is sure to suffer.”

protected yourself,” Nicholas said. “That is the most

as sure about myself. Elva needed the medicine and treatment only the palace could provide. Any loss of standing, any risk of being removed, was a danger to her.

I would protect Elva. I would do anything for her. But I didn’t

least, not

I said. “We can’t

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

he stayed very near my side, not touching but never more than an inch away.

that Julian had moved into my

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

“Of course not,

Julian’s old seat, which now placed me across the

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in as I sat. When I was comfortable, he lowered himself in the chair beside me.

at both of us.

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