Chapter 0410

That night, I left Elva with the nanny, and met with Nicholas, Julian, and Veronica in one of the sitting rooms.

“Why are we meeting here?” I asked as I entered the room. “Wouldn’t it be easier to meet near the royal family wing?”

“It would be, if that’s where Joyce was,” Julian said.

I blinked, surprised. Julian stuffed shook his head and stuffed his hands in his pockets. He didn’t seem likely to explain so I looked to Nicholas instead.

It was so nice to see Nicholas without his Bridget shadow. I wondered what he had to do to escape her for this long. But he didn’t say, and I didn’t ask. I wanted to enjoy him on his own for as long as I could, without bringing Bridget into it.

Plus, talking about her in front of Julian would hurt him.

“Joyce isn’t in his rooms,” Nicholas said, bringing me back to the matter at hand.

I pulled my brow together. “Then where is he?”

dungeons,”

of the royal family locked in the dungeons? It seemed so unheard of. Sure, that’s where they had put Terry, but he’d never been a

prince, the son

have seen my confusion. “He kept trying to

Julian said. “His cell

didn’t know how Julian knew what I was imagining, but… yeah, I was imagining something pretty bad. Dark and cold with water dripping down and a bucket

said. He held out his arm for me, and I slid my arm through

listening to our previous conversation. Though from her plainer-than- usual clothes, it was likely she had already guessed where we were

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sneak past the guards stationed at the dungeons, but when they say the

cameras.

last thing that we needed was the public wondering why two princes and two

dungeons were housed under the barracks where the guards stayed. We went down two flights of stairs before

imagined. No, this facility was entirely… modern. Cameras and clean concrete floors, and glass everywhere. The doors were metal, but there were no bars. Guards patrolled the

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