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 at her

my chest. He’d been so tense when I had been sitting

enough to enjoy

wormed its way inside of

to her and

hallway

in with her now,” the maid said. She

bedroom.

did this

as me. “She seemed fine until about an hour ago.

at first she was

pulled up to her chest. She had

few feet away from the

I touched the

tear slipped out from one closed eyeild

okay, honey. Mommy’s here now. It’s

seemed soothed by my presence, enough to

who was diligent in holding that compress and watching Elva. Confident she would alert me if something else occurred, I stepped back from the bed

hushed words to each other and

expression. The other had a pitying

a fever?” I asked. “What’s her new

each other, then

treatment plan,” the

have misheard.

a

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