#Chapter 146: Your Little Favorite

“Didn’t Julian mention the pendant to you?” I asked. “No,” Nicholas said curtly. “He gave me this.” I lifted the pendant higher, for Nicholas to see. “He said that all I have to do is press down on the moon, and my location would be sent to him. I asked him to include you in on it…” “Conveniently he failed to mention it to me.” Jealousy dripped like venom from his voice. “He must have forgotten.” “Doubtful.” Nicholas accepted the pendant and examined it closely. He flipped it over to look at the back of it. “I would have felt better if he had told me about this, but… I can’t deny it gives me some measure of comfort to know you have it.” “It does?” Nicholas nodded. “I want you protected, even if I’m not the one doing it. Julian is many things but he is not on Terry’s side. If he gave you this to protect you from him, that offer was genuine. As is the threat. If even Julian is worried about you…” Nicholas and Julian seemed to have skewed ideas of the other. I had seen Julian’s co