Chapter 0071

I should have known better.

He stood from the bed. “There are many girls here who would make good Lunas. Olivia is perhaps the

strongest of the group.”

I don’t know what I had been expecting, but my stomach still twisted uncomfortably as he spoke

other girls.

“She’s beautiful and cunning. And she has a strong following in the public. Lilliana has the proper

demeanor. And then there’s –”

“Okay, that’s enough. I get the picture.”

Nicholas shrugged, as if to say, you asked.

I regretted that choice.

“Rest now,” Nicholas said. “I’ll send my physician to check on you.”

Without another word, he walked to the door and left me.

the

was so confused. His rescue had been daring. For a

then when he had talked about those other

duty. Maybe he would have done the same for any of

girls.

head and groaned. The mixed messages

what I

able to help me sort through it, but I had no way to talk

was paying for

found another roommate. I wondered what they

was impossible. Since my phone

way to communicate

about her and her steady comfort helped bring me some peace.

if I could talk to

eliminated – which, I’m not convinced of,

every second you are there. Eat that good food. Walk through those

which, she would say with a

at her imaginary antics, I drifted off to

was able to recover by

a light cold. I had sniffles and a headache, but no fever. It felt like

keep Elva safe from my sickness, she was set

side at all times,

but I’d never dare chance passing my cold

suffer a

me away from my other responsibilities of the

I was called down to the parlor with the rest of the

entered the room, the other girls all kept fair distance from me. I didn’t mind. I felt

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