Chapter 0033

I’ll leave you two to chat, Julian said, tapping Nicholas on the shoulder.

Side by side Julian and Nicholas were of comparable height, with Nicholas an inch or two taller. They

looked similar too, though Julian’s features were somewhat softer than the hard angles of Nicholas’s

face.

Nicholas wasn’t saying anything. His expressionless gaze shifted from me to Julian and back again.

Julian laughed on his way out the door and well down the hallway. I could hear echoes of it long after he

was gone

I thought Nicholas might leave too. Had he only come to look for Julian? Despite Julian’s teasing, it seemed impossible that he would have been searching for me.

Yet when Julian left, Nicholas stayed in my doorway, fixed and unmoving like a statue.

Under his unwavering stare, I began to get nervous. Did he overhear something that Julian and I had

talked about? No, we’d been speaking softly. Even from the door, he wouldn’t have been able to hear.

did he

for as long as

want to

move, nor did not look away. “You are Julian seem…

Did we?

very close just now,”

softly we were talking, but if I admitted that, Nicholas would want to know what we had been talking about.

gave a

close during archery practice,

avoided so much as glancing at me during the archery event. Even when I had been with his group, he hadn’t said one

two become so close?” Nicholas

me

I felt like I was walking

further

who I spent time with? Unless he was

doing just now?”

swallowed down my growing nerves. “No, I, um…

matters to discuss.”

secrets to the grave, but

point, I

and to the sewing machines

the threads,

my

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