Chapter 0023

When I returned to the bedroom, Elva was missing from the bed. I nearly screamed, were it not for both of maids, who quickly approached me.

“W–where’s Elva?” I asked them, panic quaking my voice.

“You caused a right commotion, running around,” the talkative maid said. “It was enough to catch the

attention of Prince Nicholas.”

Nicholas? “He’s still at the banquet…?”

I remembered looking back at him as I was leaving. He’d been smiling at an eager girl desperate for his

attention.

“The banquet is still occurring,” the maid said. “He must have excused himself early.”

Why would he do such a thing? Surely he hadn’t overheard what Susie said about Elva? Even if he had, he w

wouldn’t have cared… would he?

“Prince Nicholas.came in here,” the quieter maid said. “He felt Elva’s fever, and then carried her out of

this room himself.”

mind was a spiral of fear and worries. I

to be

would he? She was

three years ago, he wouldn’t hurt Elva. I was certain of that. Especially when

where would he

palace was off–limits to him. Where

That was a grave offense.

Elva. I

trying to think I wanted to scream in

I

on the door,

had told me they’d

looking fully at me. “Miss Piper, you are to go to the

I’ll show

the guard. Sensing my urgency, he maintained a fast pace as he led me through the back hallways of the

I’d been summoned, right? I didn’t have time to worry.

if it brought me

and a wall of bookcases. Several tables were covered in

equipment and microscopes.

far

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