Chapter 0010

But Julian would know, because he was there.

In another life, being near Nicholas would have given me enough reason to want to stay.

But he’d made his feelings about me clear. And I had other priorities.

My gaze slid to Elva, playing with her dolls at the foot of the bed.

“I don’t want to play house,” I said. “Nor do I want to partake in this game of undercutting nobles and

chasing princes.”

I had been away from nobility for a long time, but I hadn’t forgotten their cutthroat politics, where an action as small as selecting the wrong utensil at dinner could start a blood feud. Backstabbing, betrayals, pretending to be nice just to make someone vulnerable…

The memories made my already tired body even more exhausted.

coughed and immediately reclaimed my attention. She recovered quickly this time, thank God,

daughter is frail and sick often. I have to

“Piper, you realize this is the

“Yes, but-

have access to all the royal resources?

I froze.

that. Would the royal family truly be willing to use their resources

disbelief on my face. “While you are here, you are under the care of my family. We wouldn’t simply stand by

eyes at him. Turning away a sick child

would be horrible, be

so generous

know

laughed. A roguish light danced

gold, with no flecks of

different than I was in the Academy,”

trickster then for sure, constantly teasing or performing elaborate pranks. Nicholas, the more serious one, had always accused him of never taking

and in a panic, the fire department had been called in. Julian had laughed and said it wasn’t a real fire. He couldn’t

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