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

no answer that

to keep it vague. “Julian’s been acting strange lately. He’s… softer around

I’m starting to wonder if he actually feels

lowered, Bitterness clipped his words. “He cannot

any woman’s heart.

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

side, especially when it came to kissing, I didn’t want him to

easily misplacing my heart.

yet.” Nicholas sighed. “But please be careful. He’ll try to

Nicholas out of the corner of my eye and thought of the mysterious Bridget who

two brothers. Did Nicholas truly steal

time from before even

any consideration to

there had been a misunderstanding. Julian might have misread the

waist. He kept it there, gradually tugging me closer and closer to his side all the way to the stairwell

the candidates

hallways were barren by now, the candidates in their rooms and

up the stairwell, before we reached the top

or they could see

arms around my waist and turned me toward

the jealousy I recognized

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