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 room,” Nicholas told

tired to argue.

walk away, I pulled him into

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quickly saluted as he turned and walked

occurred to me then, and I asked Nicholas, “Where will

shrugged. “There’s plenty of spare

“But…”

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

my heart

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

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

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

with

his jealousy healed a part of me. I didn’t want to be caught in this dark, ugly feeling all alone. That he was there with

with my teeth, unsure if I should reveal the next

“And it was Julian?”

“No,” I said. “Joyce.”

Nicholas frowned. “Joyce?”

I’m too trusting. I put myself into dangerous situations without consideration for my own

“I can’t argue that…”

he accidentally locked me onto the

Nicholas frowned deeper. “Accidentally?”

when I slipped and landed on Julian. When I told him what happened, he said we should check on

face was growing increasingly

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I say something wrong?”

lot to think about.” His You

gaze

slid to me.

up at him from under my eyelashes. “And you opened the door in

“)

sighed and some of his rising tension slipped away. “I wanted to see you so

replied. “It was the

“It was?”

“Yes.”

slowly drifted down to my mouth. Mine

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