Chapter 0009

Holding Elva, I walked further into my assigned room, bringing the man into focus.

It wasn’t Nicholas, but his brother.

“Julian.”

I knew Julian from my days at the Royal Academy, though we hadn’t been friends. Since Julian and

Nicholas were arch–enemies, and I was Nicholas’s girlfriend, I avoided interacted with Julian as much as I

could.

He quirked his lips into a playful smile. “You know, these days I go by, ‘Your Royal Highness.”

I swallowed hard, realizing my mistake.

I had to be careful here. Any perceived slight against the princes could cost me my life. But it was so difficult to reimagine the boys I knew at the Academy into the princes they presented themselves as now.

Nicholas and Julian were brothers, too. I never would have guessed.

I guessed Nicholas had plenty of his own secrets. Funny, back then, I had thought I was the only one with something to hide.

I’m teasing.” Julian clarified.

exhaled the breath I hadn’t realized I’d been

long time, Piper,” Julian said, approaching me. “You

I was dizzy with them. But I had no

in

packed some of

Jullan. When Jullan waved at

to her suitcase and found her

a moment,

“My brother #77

Even watching him,

an enigmatic presence – always smirking, but

knew.

would seek out for answers. But since

he

I wanted to ask, the most pressing was,

sure how you charmed your way through the initial selection, but once

cannot be so easily undone. Not without

BOW

used their magic to select the

mistake would be to admit themselves fallible. This

already divisive reputation.

surely they could have made up some

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