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

how

receive no answer

“Julian’s been acting strange lately. He’s… softer around

starting to wonder if he actually feels some kind of fondness for

lowered, Bitterness clipped his

woman’s heart.

Nicholas’s jealousy,

Nicholas’s envious side, especially when it came to kissing, I

easily misplacing my heart.

sighed. “But please be careful.

glanced at Nicholas out of the corner of my eye

two brothers. Did Nicholas truly steal her away

tried to imagine it, a time from before even Nicholas and I were

he wouldn’t have given any consideration to his brother’s feelings?

I still couldn’t imagine Nicholas that way. Perhaps there had been a misunderstanding. Julian might have misread the entire

around my waist. He kept it there, gradually tugging me

the

barren by now, the candidates in their

before we reached the top and could see the

door or they could see

waist and turned me toward him. I easily slotted against his

the jealousy

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