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

no answer that would actually help

“Julian’s been acting strange

I’m starting to wonder if he actually feels some kind of fondness

voice lowered, Bitterness clipped his words. “He cannot

woman’s heart. Especially

heart.” Recognizing Nicholas’s jealousy, I gently corrected him. While I

mind Nicholas’s envious side, especially when it came to kissing, I didn’t want him to think I was

easily misplacing my heart.

sighed. “But please be careful.

the corner of my eye

Did Nicholas truly steal her away from

imagine it, a time from before even Nicholas and I were together. Could Nicholas have

wouldn’t have given any consideration to his brother’s

I still couldn’t imagine Nicholas that way. Perhaps there had

from my arm to around my waist. He kept it there, gradually tugging me closer and closer to

the

barren by now, the candidates in their rooms and

stairwell, before we reached the top

door or they

and turned me toward him. I easily slotted

was the jealousy I recognized

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