Julius, Marcellus, and Lillian's part of the outer district was on the complete opposite side from our estate.
We were on the left; they were on the right. Evelina and I shared a mansion, but Marcellus lived separately from the other two. Over there, two mansions stood right next to each other, like they'd been copied and pasted into place.
Maybe it was a coincidence. Or maybe the imperial family had arranged it that way from the start, back when they shoved us into this special program.
If I had to bet, I'd say they didn't want Marcellus living with his bastard brother. They wanted him isolated, ruling on his own, slowly forgetting the other even existed.
If that really was their plan, it was a stupid one. The novel never bothered to explain the specifics of it anyway; as far as I know, it was just a convenient excuse so things wouldn't get too awkward in this arc.
"Definitely their territory," Evelina murmured, glancing around.
