Chapter 0224

We made it five steps out into the hallway before Nicholas started asking questions.

“Did something happen?” he asked.

I didn’t want to lie to him, so I shrugged. “Nothing big.”

“Nothing big is still something.

With my hand on his arm, Nicholas dictated how fast and slow we walked. He slowed now, making it

clear he would stretch this out if he needed to. He was worried about me, I could see from the look in his

eye. He wasn’t going to let me off the hook easily.

Softer, he asked, “Did Julian do something?”

“No,” I said. Julian had stopped himself before he could. That was assuming that leaning in for a kiss

had been what he was actually doing, and not just teasing me. “I don’t know. It was confusing.”

“Tell me.”

I wanted to. I needed to talk to someone about what happened, and who knew Julian better than.

Nicholas? But I was unsure. With their rivalry, and Nicholas’s jealousy, if he knew that Julian had tried to

me, how would he

receive no answer that would actually help

vague. “Julian’s been acting strange lately.

to wonder if he actually feels some kind

Nicholas’s voice lowered, Bitterness clipped his words.

woman’s

say he had my heart.” Recognizing Nicholas’s jealousy, I gently corrected

when it came to kissing, I didn’t want him to think I was

easily misplacing my heart.

Nicholas sighed. “But please be

out of the corner of my eye

Nicholas

from before even

have given any consideration to his brother’s feelings? Julian had

still couldn’t imagine Nicholas that way. Perhaps there had been a misunderstanding. Julian

kept it there, gradually tugging me closer and closer to his side all

where the candidates were

the candidates in their

up the stairwell, before we reached the top and could

door or they could see

around my waist and turned me toward him. I

was the jealousy I

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