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

looked at her and

been so tense when I

enough to enjoy

sadness wormed its way inside of me, but I

was sick. I needed to get to her and find out

of my maids was in the hallway

royal doctors are in with her now,” the maid said. She kept pace with me as

bedroom.

did this happen?” I

maid seemed as confused as me. “She seemed fine until about an hour ago. The fever came on

first

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

stood a few feet away from the

I touched the back

was weak. A tear slipped out from

honey. Mommy’s here now. It’s

by my presence, enough to fall

and watching Elva. Confident she would alert me if something else

words to each other and looked

other had a

a fever?” I asked. “What’s her new treatment

at each

is no treatment plan,” the blank one

must have misheard. “Excuse

a

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