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.

didn’t back down. He didn’t take it back. He just glared at Nicholas like he planned to say it six or seven more times to stab him with the

A growl was

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

patience was thin. I’d already had a trying day, making Elva cry. I didn’t have the necessary calm to deal

smirk wavered

I turned to him next. He seemed surprised that I would address him in this argument, but a moment later, he met my disapproving gaze with

“Piper.”

not wrong. We should be careful…”

said, and made it sound so

o sure.

+15 BONUS

think,” Julian chimed

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

want to do is walk you back to

not with the heated glace he was giving me. He, like me, hadn’t forgotten our time together the night before. Even now, every inch of my skin tingled for the touch of his hand, or the press

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