Five minutes after that, I excused myself from the party when Mark called for me.

As I headed to the door, I nearly tripped over my feet, spotting Nicholas waiting there.

“Prince Nicholas,” I said. “What a surprise.”

“You wanted to go to the store?” he asked me

I glanced at Mark, but he just stared back brightly, like nothing was

“I surely can’t ask a prince to run errands with me,” I said.

wrong.

Nicholas shrugged like it was no big deal. “It would be good to get away for a while.” He turned away

before I could think to argue. I hurried to slip on my shoes, grab a light jacket, and chase after him into the

hallway.

He drove us away from the palace in one of the less flashy sedans. It was black with tinted windows.

“If Julian had any sense, he would use one of these to sneak out properly,” Nicholas said.

escape of a first date. “Most of the time,

bad boy persona, I

drags you into it,” Nicholas said.

that was true, Julian had a way of bringing me

able to

might not be all bad,” I

glared out the front windshield as we drove

to town.

the fabric store, we had to pass through a portion of the town

run–down cars,

car doors had locked automatically when Nicholas had started driving, but he clicked lock

now, making sure.

Nicholas said. “A lady shouldn’t have to witness such

all that different from

to glance at me. Then a second time. “You’re serious.

Or had that just been

this. Over the past few years, there’s been

homeless. I’ve had

a roof over

or three jobs?” Nicholas repeated like he

I

and we’d be much worse off if I didn’t find such a good person

I could ever thank her for. I’ll be indebted to her the rest of

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