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 and gave

when I had been sitting there. But now, in

felt comfortable enough to enjoy

wormed its way inside of me,

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

in the hallway outside the dining room, waiting

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

bedroom.

did this happen?”

maid seemed as confused as me. “She seemed fine

at first she

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

away

the back of my

slipped out from one

here now. It’s going to be

seemed soothed by my presence,

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

toward them, they stopped their hushed words to each other

other had a pitying

a fever?” I asked. “What’s

doctors glanced at each other, then

is no treatment plan,”

have misheard.

a

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