Chapter 0392

Tiffany stepped in front of me, blocking Jessica from getting too closely.

“Her name is clear, Jessica,” Tiffany said.

“I don’t care if they didn’t fuck,” Jessica growled. “At the very least, she tricked him somehow. He’s a decent guy. He never would have behaved this way on his

own.”

“Back off, Jessica,” Veronica said. Her voice was terrifyingly calm for the amount of anger that burned in her own eyes. Veronica, I knew, was the only person in the room to truly be afraid of. She might be away from the underground now, but she still had magic.

“I didn’t sleep with him. I didn’t trick him.” I wished she would believe me, but she shook her head at my words, as if shaking them away from herself before they could sink in.

If I was free to talk, I would tell her that Nicholas was the one I wanted. That the night Joyce claimed we were together, I was likely with his eldest brother instead. But that would endanger Nicholas and his run for the crown.

So I had to keep my mouth shut and take the brunt of her rage without much of a defense.

“You slept with all of the princes,” Jessica said, and the words irked straight through me, pushing back all my sense of calm. Of forgiveness. Instead my wolf reared its head, its own anger stoked.

so you could

made people act irrationally.

hurt Jessica. She was already hurt. She was just taking

  1. me.

was raging, and my

to go

A. Whore,” I growled very slowly, trying to keep myself under

why do you act

male voice from the entryway.

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away as Nicholas took up place between Jessica and I. He

Slowly, my rage began to seep away, as if it had never been

hurt someone,

came closer to me. She

I whispered and she nodded.

mine. I gave her

between

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