Chapter 0021

After receiving Susie’s news, I needed a moment to catch my breath. I didn’t understand. The royal

doctor had already examined Elva, as recently as the day before. How could she have a fever again?

Wouldn’t the doctor have detected any anomalies before they fully formed?

Those questions would have to wait. For now, all I knew was my daughter was sick and I had to get to

I

I

gett

her.

I pushed away my soup bowl, and apologized to those around me. “I’m sorry. There’s an emergency. I

have to go.

Susie squeezed my arm, then returned to her chair.

As I hurried toward the exit, I glanced back at the table.

A bold girl had already slid herself into my abandoned seat. She must have said a joke, because the

Nicholas looked at her

my chest. He’d been so tense when

felt comfortable enough to

kind of sadness wormed its way inside of me, but I pushed

I needed to get to her and find out what was going

in the hallway outside the dining room, waiting for

the maid said. She

bedroom.

this happen?” I

as confused as me. “She seemed fine until

We thought at first she was just

the blankets pulled up to her chest. She had a cold compress on her forehead, held in place

doctors, presumably, stood a few feet away

and hurried to her side. I touched the

weak. A tear slipped out from one closed eyeild and talled down her

okay, honey. Mommy’s here now. It’s going to

my presence, enough

Elva. Confident she would alert me if something else occurred, I

I came toward them, they stopped their hushed words to each other and looked at

The other had

a fever?” I asked. “What’s her

doctors glanced at each other,

treatment plan,” the blank

have

a

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