Chapter 0348

“What the hell are you talking about?” Nicholas snapped back.

“You need to stop walking Piper around,” Julian said, firm. “It makes me look bad. She’s supposed to be my date, remember?”

“It’s after hours,” Nicholas said. “There shouldn’t be any cameras.”

““Shouldn’t be,“” Julian said. “You admit it. There could still be some.”

“You are being overly paranoid,” Nicholas said.

“And you aren’t being paranoid enough,” Julian countered. He looked at me. “If we want this to seem real, we need to keep up appearances even without the cameras. I don’t care what you two get up to behind closed doors

His gaze dips to my neck, where the love bites Nicholas left are still prominent.

“But when we are in public, even if it’s late, you have to respect that I’m Piper’s boyfriend,” Julian said.

Boyfriend? We’d never used that term before. We’d only been dating, or I was Julian’s favorite. But neither he nor 1, nor any of the producers, had gone so far as to call Julian my

boyfriend.

Nicholas like he planned to say it six or seven more times

Nicholas said, his voice dropping low and dangerous. A growl was hidden there, revealed around the edges. “You are fake dating. That is not

telling yourself that.” Julian’s lips quirked into a mocking smirk. He was baiting his

trying day, making Elva cry. I didn’t have the necessary calm to deal with these

smirk wavered a

surprised that I would address him in this argument,

“Piper.”

We should

he said, and made it sound

o sure.

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think,” Julian

anyway. Our moments. were so stolen and rare, I collected each like precious gemstones.

do is walk you back to your room,” Nicholas said. “It’s all

our time together the night before. Even now, every inch of my skin tingled for the touch of his hand,

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