#Chapter 31: The Uprising

NOLAN Yena was sound asleep by the time Nolan got home. He slid into bed beside her and got about two solid hours of sleep before his phone woke him up. The prince had about a dozen news alerts set to trigger a notification on his phone any time something was published online that mentioned certain keywords. Waking to the sound he had assigned to news alerts, Nolan rolled over and reached out for his phone, expecting the notification be something trivial. It was not trivial. He shot straight up in bed and opened up the link. There was a photo of two people walking in the rain, together under a single umbrella. He recognized Yena but could not tell immediately who the tall man with his arm around her was. The headline at the top of the article read, Princess Yena Spotted in Intimate Embrace with Husband’s Half-Brother. Nolan scrolled down. There were more photos. And yes, the man in the picture was Adan. He took a deep, noisy inhale through his nose and let it