Chapter 0044

“I should have the girl forcibly removed for ruining Prince Nicholas’s date,” Lena said, voice sharp. “I’m

sure Prince Nicholas himself is furious.”

“Nick–lass is mad at me?” Elva sniffed.

“No,” I said at once.

“He should be, if he isn’t,” Lena snapped. “You are a very nasty little girl, who

That’s enough.”

“-shouldn’t even be here.”

“I said, that’s enough!” I stepped forward, approaching Lena. “You will not talk to my daughter like that.”

“Fine,” Lena said, shifting her rage–filled gaze onto me. “Then why don’t we talk about you instead, Piper. You know you and your daughter don’t belong her but you insist on wasting everyone’s time and efforts by continuing to stay.”

Elva until my dying breath. It was

didn’t belong here. I was wasting everyone’s time. But, while

the healthiest she had ever been, and that was only

we left, Elva would go back to receiving base–level care, and only then if I could afford

would stay. I would face any amount of humiliation

Lena said. “He deserves better than to have his every moment intruded

this, I could understand where she was coming from. Nicholas and the

and I to purposefully put ourselves in the way of him finding

more careful in the future,” I conceded. “We’ll make sure not to bother Prince Nicholas while he is on

grunted. “At least you can see some reason. If I can’t convince you to leave, I’m glad you can see how bothersome you are. Hopefully soon, none of this will matter

eliminated the first round, but I felt nothing but distain

it, or the royal family asks me to,”

enjoy your last few days in the palace, then.” Without

turned and marched out

of understanding passed between the quiet maid and I. At least I knew

suspicious. In Lena’s absence, she smiled and

just tore

in earnest. I

before her, I dropped to my

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