Chapter 0272

“It’s fine,” I said. “I got away before anything truly bad happened.” At his insistence, I then proceeded to explain exactly what Terry had done.

“He tried to touch you,” Nicholas growled. “He did touch you.”

“I left before anything could happen. I got myself out of that situation.”

After cleaning his wounds, I wrapped his hand in a sanitized white bandage. He held himself very still for me, though I could feel the tension buzzing under his skin.

The moment I fastened the bandage, securing it, he pulled me against his chest and wrapped his arms around me.

“I should have been there,” he said. “I’m sorry.”

“You can’t be there every minute. Besides he was so subtle about it, even Julian didn’t notice.”

felt

“Stepping out like that was not the most tactful

“That is the most important thing.”

it was. But I wasn’t as sure about myself. Elva needed the medicine and treatment only the palace could provide. Any loss of standing,

help build my courage. I would protect Elva. I would

not yet.

back,” I said. “We can’t

into my neck, where he breathed me in for a long moment. Then, reluctantly, he

my side, not touching but never

table, I noticed that Julian had

mind, do you, Piper?” Julian asked, eyes alight with mischief. “This makes it so much easier

“Of course not,

and moved to Julian’s old seat,

as I sat. When I was

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