My entire body goes numb at Julian’s words. The whole world had seen Nicholas, live, strip down and roll over. Everyone must have been speculating what they saw. Was there even any question?
What else could we have been doing but what we did?
God, I never wanted to be in a pit again, but I still half-wanted the earth to open up and swallow me whole, so that I wouldn’t have to live with this absolute mortification.
People already speculated so much about my relationship with Nicholas and with Julian. This only added more fuel to the fire.
Julian watched my reaction with a curious, probing glance. Whatever my face looked like made him start to smile like the devil that he was.
“Why, Piper,” he said, his voice sing-song and teasing. “Did something happen in that cave that you might not w
