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Chapter 73: Faking Love

I watched his back as he was leaving, and pondered what he just said.

‘I was just passing by.’

That was a lie.

Tallis was hiding something, I knew he was. There was a familiarity about him that I just couldn’t shake. It was this air of calm and cold that he carried. I had felt it once before and only with one other person.

But could it be?

I had asked him numerous times and each time he refuted my claims. He was not the somber prince I knew.

So why did they both carry the same aura?

I shook my head thinking I had lost my damn mind. First the fake Ciana and now this. My problems and questions kept piling up with each passing day.

It didn’t matter now though. I had more important matters to attend to.

My mind was turning fast. Fake Ciana had professed her undying love to Warren. This was what I had been hoping for. Phase one of the plan was complete and now it was time to move onto phase two.

Whoever Tallis was, he could wait.

I turned on my heel ready to walk back to where fake Ciana and Warren had been, but I slammed into a warm wall.

I stumbled a few steps back before a pair of strong arms came out and caught me.

“You okay there, Ciana?”

Warren helped me to steady myself.

“Yeah,” I looked up at him. “Where is the other Ciana? What happened? I had to leave because…”

My voice trailed off as the words got stuck in my throat. I didn’ t want to worry Warren. He had a tendency to somehow shift blame of every bad thing that happens onto himself, especially when it regarded me.

I often thought that he had too much honor at times. I wished he would be a little less chivalrous.

“Because?” He pressed.

“It’s nothing. Now tell me what’s going on with her?”

Warren stepped closer, crossing into that imaginary bubble l had around me.

“What happened, Ciana?” His eyes held mine.

“I told you nothing.”

“It doesn’t sound like nothing. Your heart’s racing, you have that little nervous nose twitch you do when you’re hiding something. So spill it.”

I stood still for a moment in complete shock. “How do you know about the twitch?”

He rolled his eyes. “I notice everything about you, Black. Now spill it.”

I let out a sigh and bit down on my lip. “Hawke came by.”

body visibly tense. By now, he probably has heard about Hawke a few times, both from me catching him up on the important players in the pack,

His voice was tight

have tried to harass me, a little bit,” I blurted out. “But he was drunk and he had two broken arms so he

eyes darkened. “I need to have a word with

but compare Warren and Theo in my mind. In a situation like this, if it was Theo, he probably would just beat Hawke up….like Tallis had

my hand out and grabbed his arm. “No need

“Tallis?”

aren’t talking about Hawke. We are talking about you

overtook Warren’s face. My heart immediately dropped and I felt all the hope

agreed to elope with

feet. “This is great news! You are the best! But… I could tell you’re upset. Sorry again for putting

get me wrong, I am happy for the progress. But it’s just…I feel like I’m going

smile slipped from my face. “I

I just lied to her. I told her I loved her too and told her I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. What kind of man does that

feel the strong thumping on my palm. It was racing and I didn’t know whether it was from guilt or nerves. But whatever it was, I wanted it

had no business feeling guilty for this. If anything, all of

a good man, Warren. A great man in fact. I told you this many times before and now I will tell you again. What you are doing for

gaze on me, waiting

not fully innocent. She has taken my identity and is trying to take over my home. This is wrong,

I want that for

important thing is that she didn’t want this life. I could tell. No one would want to be someone else for the rest of their lives. So you’re helping her. You’re helping her to get out of here and get away from people that she is

tell Warren’s expression

might feel bad once she finds out you don’t really love her, but by then, at least she

out one long breath that fanned my face. His scent

away he offered me a small smile.

“Do what?”

when to say it.” He tucked away a stray piece of hair that had come out

to make light of the situation.

I stepped away from

nodded and we walked away from

be in two days. That was when we would have the elopement

order for the alliance to go through, both Luther and Ciana would need to present. If Ciana suddenly went missing due to her

the plan. The other stage was a little

was it really stealing if it belonged to my parents? Depends on which angle you looked

past two hours. We made

still meet her tonight?” I asked

“I need to keep

from my seat at the table. “We can convene again tomorrow. Go have fun

a little light hearted but he

go, you know that right? I can tell her something

have joked about

“You’re forgiven,” he smiled.

madly in love, though. Unfortunately, for the sake of our plan, it would be better for

He sighed, “Okay.”

goodbyes and went our

on board really did take a lot of the pressure off my back. He made this serious

to take a

my world had flipped upside down when I was sent to the royal palace, and now returning home my world had flipped yet again. But like my father had