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

likely receive no answer that would actually

keep it vague. “Julian’s been

actually

Nicholas’s voice lowered, Bitterness clipped his words. “He

woman’s

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

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

easily misplacing my heart.

yet.” Nicholas sighed. “But please be careful.

corner of my eye and thought of the mysterious Bridget

Nicholas

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

wouldn’t have given any consideration to his brother’s feelings? Julian had made

Nicholas that way. Perhaps there had been a misunderstanding. Julian might have misread the entire thing. It just

Nicholas’s arm moved from my arm to around my waist. He kept it there, gradually tugging me

where the

now, the candidates in their rooms and the servants done for the

before we

door or they

my waist and turned

this was the jealousy I

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