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 he

no answer that would

been

wonder if he actually feels some kind of fondness

lowered, Bitterness clipped

with any woman’s heart. Especially

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

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

easily misplacing my heart.

please be

the corner of my eye and thought of

brothers. Did Nicholas truly steal

to imagine it, a time from before even Nicholas and

any consideration to his brother’s feelings? Julian

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

He kept it there, gradually tugging me closer and closer to his side all the way to the stairwell

the candidates

were barren by now, the candidates in their rooms

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

door or they

wrapped both arms around my waist and turned me toward him. I

jealousy I recognized

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