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.

breath I

Piper,” Julian

dizzy with them. But I had no

squirmed in my

as I lowered her to the ground. “I packed some of your

When Jullan waved at her, she

suitcase and found

for a moment, before

“My brother #77

watching him, I couldn’t discern what he was

had always carried an enigmatic presence – always smirking, but never quite

knew.

was not the type of person I would seek out for answers. But since

me, he was my

wanted to ask, the most pressing was, “Why am

sure how you charmed your way through the initial selection, but once

Not without great embarrassment

BOW

sense. The royal family had used their

mistake would be to admit themselves

already divisive reputation.

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