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.

exhaled the breath I hadn’t

been a long time, Piper,” Julian

many questions, I was dizzy with them. But I had no idea

squirmed in my

ground. “I packed

at Jullan. When Jullan waved at her, she

to her suitcase and found

moment, before turning

“My brother #77

sound. Even watching him, I couldn’t

had always carried an enigmatic presence – always smirking,

knew.

seek out for

he

the most pressing was, “Why am

your way through the initial selection, but once it

it cannot be so easily undone. Not without great embarrassment to the

BOW

made sense. The royal family had used

would be to admit themselves fallible. This would

already divisive reputation.

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