Chapter 0491 We hadn’t been alone since the kiss.

While we weren’t exactly alone now, with the others nearby, we were speaking privately. A faint heat began * torise in my cheeks. I didn’t know I what to say.

Julian blinked. He lifted his head and looked at me more critically. “Piper...” I he started but didn’t finish. Maybe he didn’t know what to say either.

The moment stretched out. I racked my brain for something else to talk about — literally anything else — but all I could think about was how we agreed never to talk about that kiss ever again.

Maybe... the weather? It was sunny again today.

Ug! Why did he have to kiss me? It took our perfectly healthy friendship and turned it into something awkward and uncertain. I didn’t know how to react around him anymore.

Julian inhaled a great breath, as if he * was preparing himself for something.

“Piper, I'm —-” “How are you feeling, Julian?” Nicholas asked as he approached us.

to me was instantly

mostly neutral, but there was a

thanks,” Julian said. He scratched at his head,

likely be fully healed in a few hours. This was the only reason I hadn’t

“Good,” Nicholas said.

T had thought things were awkward before with just Julian and me, they

bottom lip

stood

interrupting

I said, just as Julian said, “Kind ofl Nicholas narrowed his

Her closeness to him, while wearing that revealing bikini, made my jealousy rumble in my chest, but I quickly

have been grateful for Bridget’s interruption. If Nicholas asked about the awkwardness between Julian

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