Tris cringes at Nick’s very blunt approach with his grandfather. She knows the prince doesn’t want to waste time being told how wrong they were for going back to the mainland without support when his own family is in danger. But being candid isn’t the way to go about it.

“Wait, what?” Draco snaps, obviously taken off guard by Nick’s statement.

It takes him a minute to process everything. Clearly, he had expected the conversation to go in a completely ...