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.

you to your

tired to argue. “We’ll

away, I pulled him

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He quickly saluted as

then, and I asked

plenty of spare

“But…”

He held out his arm, and I slipped mine through

a jumbled mess. I almost lost Nicholas tonight, which had my heart all twisted up inside. And when I thought of how Jane

worse when I thought of my twin pressing her lips to Nichola s’s. I knew it wasn’t his fault. He had thought it

me through the heart. I wanted to be the one Nicholas kissed, and all

seemingly been lost in his own thoughts, broke the silence first. “Piper. Tonight.

with Julian

healed a part of me. I didn’t want to be caught in this dark,

the balcony,” I said. I worried my bottom lip with my teeth, unsure if I should reveal the next part. Though, in the end, I was too tired to reason myself why I should keep

“And it was Julian?”

“No,” I said. “Joyce.”

Nicholas frowned. “Joyce?”

about how I’m too

“I can’t argue that…”

he accidentally

Nicholas frowned deeper. “Accidentally?”

I slipped and

face was growing

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I say something

his face. “But there’s a lot to think about.” His You thought that note was from me and foolishly

gaze

slid to me.

eyelashes. “And you opened the door in the middle of the night and

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of his rising tension slipped

I replied. “It

“It was?”

“Yes.”

drifted down to my mouth. Mine dropped to his much

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