By mid-morning, the campus was in complete chaos. Students who'd dismissed Julian as theatrical entertainment were suddenly treating him like genuine royalty, faculty members were scrambling to understand the security implications, and parents were calling the administration to discuss how eighth-in-line princes affected their children's social positioning.
Nick and Roni found me in the library, both looking panicked in ways I'd never seen from them before.
"Isabella," Roni said, pulling me into a quiet corner, "we need to talk about the Julian situation."
"What about it?"
"About the fact that we've been publicly associated with someone who's eighth in line to a European throne. About the fact that our fake-turned-real relationship is now documented alongside genuine royal succession p
