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

her laughed. Even Nicholas looked at her and gave a

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

felt comfortable enough to

way inside of me, but I

I needed to get to

of my maids was in the hallway

are in with her now,” the maid said.

bedroom.

did this happen?”

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

We thought at first she was just

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

a few feet away from the bed, speaking softly

to her side. I touched the back of my fingers

A tear slipped out from one closed

now. It’s going

by my presence, enough to

compress and watching Elva. Confident she would

toward them, they stopped their hushed words to each other and looked at me. One

other had a pitying

I asked. “What’s her

doctors glanced at each

is no treatment plan,” the blank

have misheard. “Excuse

a

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