Chapter 0326

“Okay,” I said. “Um, so how do we trap Jane?” I looked at Julian. He’s typically the master of schemes. I expected him to have a few up his sleeves.

Right now, however, he seemed a bit blank. He shook his head, as if to recover. “We just need to lure her in… if we could… prepare a closet to trap her…”

“A closet?” I ask.

“Something to…” He rubbed his forehead. “Something, confining.”

“She likely has back ways out of every room in the palace, closets included,” Nicholas said. It wouldn’t surprise me.”

“What if we jump out behind her and put a sack over her?” I asked.

Julian, Veronica, and Nicolas all looked at me.

I blinked. “What?”

Julian rubbed his temples next.

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It was only after a few moments that I realized the many, various flaws with the plan I announced so confidentially. A few moments more and I started to feel how achy my joints were and how heavy my eyelids were.

The adrenaline of the day was wearing off, and my body was worn.

“We should break for the night,” Veronica said. “You’ve all had an exhausting day. We should return to this with fresh minds.”

Julian, Nicholas, and I glanced at each other. In them, I could see the exhaustion that I felt. No doubt, they saw the same in me.

“That’s probably a good idea,” Julian said.

“I

agree,

“Nicholas replied.

“Yeah.” I was reluctant to admit it. I wanted to stay up, think of a plan, and resolve everything right away. But… shifting my gaze to Nicholas, and his healing but still battle- bruised body, I couldn’t deny some rest was in order.

Veronica bid us goodnight and we left the room.

your

but seemed too tired to argue. “We’ll

I pulled him into a quick hug. “Thank you,

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squeeze in return, then sighed and let me go. He quickly saluted as he turned and walked down the hallway, back toward the royal

occurred to me then, and I asked

“There’s plenty of spare

“But…”

He held out his arm, and I slipped mine through his. He began to

we walked through the quiet, my thoughts were a jumbled mess. I almost lost Nicholas tonight, which had my heart all twisted up inside. And when

my twin pressing her lips to Nichola

wanted to be the one Nicholas kissed, and all I had been doing lately was

silence first. “Piper. Tonight. Earlier. How did you

been out with Julian

I didn’t want to be caught in this dark,

the next part. Though, in the end, I was too tired to reason myself why I should keep it a secret. “I

“And it was Julian?”

“No,” I said. “Joyce.”

Nicholas frowned. “Joyce?”

“He was proving a point to me, about how I’m too trusting. I put myself into dangerous situations

“I can’t argue that…”

ignored that dig. “But then he

Nicholas frowned deeper. “Accidentally?”

it any other way. “I was trying to climb down a tree, when I slipped and landed on

was growing increasingly

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I say something wrong?” I

“But there’s a lot to think about.” His

gaze

slid to me.

him from under my eyelashes. “And you opened the

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his rising tension slipped away. “I wanted to see you so

hoped, too,” I replied. “It was

“It was?”

“Yes.”

down to my mouth. Mine dropped to his

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