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

receive no answer that would actually help

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

wonder if he actually feels some kind of fondness for

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

woman’s

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

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

easily misplacing my heart.

please

out of the corner of my eye and thought of the mysterious Bridget who

the two brothers. Did Nicholas truly

time from before even Nicholas and I

have given any consideration to his brother’s feelings? Julian

that way. Perhaps there had been a

around my waist. He kept it there, gradually tugging me closer and closer to his side all

where the candidates

the candidates in

we reached the top and could

or they could

around my waist and turned me toward

was the jealousy I recognized

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