Holding Elva, I walked further into my assigned room, bringing the man into focus.

It wasn’t Nicholas, but his brother.

“Julian.”

I knew Julian from my days at the Royal Academy, though we hadn’t been friends. Since Julian and

Nicholas were arch–enemies, and I was Nicholas’s girlfriend, I avoided interacted with Julian as much as I

could.

He quirked his lips into a playful smile. “You know, these days I go by, ‘Your Royal Highness.”

I swallowed hard, realizing my mistake.

I had to be careful here. Any perceived slight against the princes could cost me my life. But it was so difficult to reimagine the boys I knew at the Academy into the princes they presented themselves as now.

Nicholas and Julian were brothers, too. I never would have guessed.

I guessed Nicholas had plenty of his own secrets. Funny, back then, I had thought I was the only one with something to hide.

I’m teasing.” Julian clarified.

the breath I

been a long time, Piper,” Julian said, approaching

questions, I was dizzy with them.

in

the ground. “I packed some of

cast a distrustful look at Jullan. When Jullan waved at her, she quickly looked

to her suitcase and found her

a moment,

“My brother #77

thoughtful humming sound. Even watching

always smirking, but never quite revealing all that

knew.

the type of person I would seek out for answers.

talk to me, he was my

many questions I wanted to ask, the most pressing was, “Why am I allowed

your way through the

be so easily undone. Not without great embarrassment to the royal

BOW

family had used their

to admit themselves fallible. This

already divisive reputation.

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