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.

to your room,” Nicholas told

too tired to argue.

him into a quick hug. “Thank

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

then, and I asked Nicholas, “Where will you sleep

plenty of

“But…”

you need me.” He held out his arm, and I slipped mine through his. He

mess. I almost lost Nicholas tonight, which had my heart all twisted up inside. And when I thought of how Jane was able to fool Nicholas… When

I thought of my twin pressing her lips to Nichola s’s. I knew it

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

his own thoughts, broke the silence first. “Piper. Tonight. Earlier. How did you know I was missing so quickly?”

with Julian

messed up as it was, his jealousy healed a part of me. I didn’t want to be caught in this

the next part. Though, in the end, I was too tired

“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

“I can’t argue that…”

dig. “But then he accidentally locked me onto

Nicholas frowned deeper. “Accidentally?”

to climb down a tree, when I slipped and landed on Julian. When I told him what happened, he said we should check on

was

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say something wrong?”

down his face. “But there’s a lot to think about.” His You thought that

gaze

slid to me.

at him from under my eyelashes. “And you opened the door in the middle of the night and assumed it was

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hoped,” he said. He sighed and some of his rising

too,” I replied. “It was the

“It was?”

“Yes.”

slowly drifted down to my mouth.

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