I stood very still, confused and surprised both by the very presence of Julian’s lips on my cheek as well

as the tenderness of the affection he was showing me.

Julian had always struck me as something of a pl ayboy, and while I understood that much of how he

acted was an act, he never seemed to connect with any woman, in any relationship, beyond a fleeting fancy.

In our school days, he strung along many hearts, leaving a trail of broken ones behind him. He never

seemed to care about the mess he made of girls’ emotions.

Even Nicholas had warned me that Julian was a love them and leave them kind of guy.

So the gentle way he kissed my cheek, and the way his hands hovered over my shoulders, close but not

touching, was so bizarre to me, I was stunned speechless.

Then he pulled away, walked around me, and continued up the stairs. After a few steps, he stopped to

me.

to formulate

my

he had a familiar saunter to

so I couldn’t correlate that with

my observation, he was acting like the kiss hadn’t happened at all. Or, it

which seemed

with what Nicholas had warned

guards greeted us both. When Mark saw

imagined he was texting

just to be

you then,” Julian said. He barely gave me a glance as he turned to go back

we came from.

already walking away.

him until he was

turned to Mark. “How

checking on her every fifteen minutes,” Mark said. “She’s been sleeping soundly all

“Thank you, Mark.”

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