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

answer

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

he actually

capable of fondness.” Nicholas’s voice lowered, Bitterness clipped

woman’s

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

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

easily misplacing my heart.

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

at Nicholas out of the corner of my eye and thought of

Nicholas truly

before even Nicholas and I were together. Could

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

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

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

where the

the candidates in their rooms and the servants done for

me halfway up the stairwell, before we reached

door or they could

my waist and turned me

this was the jealousy

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