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

answer that

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

I’m starting to wonder if he actually feels some

isn’t capable of fondness.” Nicholas’s voice lowered, Bitterness clipped his words. “He

woman’s heart. Especially

Recognizing Nicholas’s

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

easily misplacing my heart.

Nicholas sighed. “But please

out of the corner of my eye and thought of

the two brothers. Did Nicholas truly steal her away

time from before even Nicholas and

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

had been a misunderstanding. Julian might have misread the entire thing. It just didn’t seem

we continued to walk, Nicholas’s arm moved from my arm to around my waist. He kept it there, gradually tugging me closer and closer to his side all the way to the stairwell leading up

where the

now, the candidates in

the stairwell, before we reached

door or they

waist and turned

was the jealousy I recognized

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