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

receive no answer that

it vague. “Julian’s been acting strange lately.

he actually feels some kind

lowered, Bitterness clipped his words. “He

woman’s heart. Especially

didn’t say he had my heart.” Recognizing Nicholas’s jealousy, I

envious side, especially when it came to

easily misplacing my heart.

doesn’t yet.” Nicholas sighed. “But please be careful. He’ll try to steal

of my eye and thought of the

the two brothers. Did Nicholas truly steal her away from

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

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

as hard as I could, I still couldn’t imagine Nicholas that way. Perhaps there had been a misunderstanding. Julian might have misread the entire thing. It

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

where the

barren by now, the candidates in their rooms and the

me halfway up the stairwell, before we reached the top and could see

or they could

turned

was the jealousy I recognized the sexy

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