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

laughed. Even Nicholas looked

jumped in my chest. He’d been so tense when I had been sitting there. But now, in

felt comfortable enough to enjoy

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

I needed to get to her

my maids was in the hallway outside

her now,” the maid said. She kept pace with me as we rushed back

bedroom.

this

maid seemed as confused as me. “She seemed fine until

at first

bed, the blankets pulled up to her chest. She had a

doctors, presumably, stood a few feet away from the bed, speaking softly with

gasped and hurried to her side. I touched the

slipped out from one closed eyeild and talled down

Mommy’s here now. It’s going

by my presence, enough to

watching Elva. Confident she would alert me if

them, they stopped their hushed words to each

The other had a

does Elva have a fever?” I asked. “What’s her

glanced at each other,

plan,” the blank one

must have

a

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