Chapter 0227

I nodded, just as Elva returned with her third doll.

Nicholas stayed to play until late in the morning, when his duties finally pulled him away. He hugged Elva

extra tightly before he left. He squeezed me too, though I pretended not to notice.

After lunch, Tiffany stopped me just outside in the hallway. She pulled me to the side so that we could

speak privately for a minute.

“What did you want to talk about?” I asked when we were far enough away from the door that the other

girls couldn’t overhear.

“Listen, Piper, Veronica and I have been noticing some strange behavior from you lately. It’s kind of

freaking everyone out.”

She seemed earnestly concerned, her brow bunched up.

things too, but this didn’t feel like that. Lilliana was

to speak

about,” I said. I placed my hand on my heart, hoping she could see the sincerity I was

further. “Veronica and some of the other girls too have noticed you walking

in and out of rooms!”

accused of wandering around in the night, though usually I had Nicholas or Julian on my arm. It could even be said that I had been in odd places, since I’d been down into the cellar. But never, ever, had I gone into anyone’s room

the other girls had seen must have been my sister Jane. But I couldn’t just.tell that to

that

looks like me and

tell that she didn’t fully believe me. I couldn’t exactly blame her since I wasn’t telling the full truth of what

her around during the day? Like, surely if you had a twin somewhere around, someone

flinch, but only because I was holding every muscle in

Tiffany pointed at me. “Because Lilliana has talked to the guards and they’re all starting to keep an eye

before it’s too late.”

every intention of clearing it up, though not

down my sister and find

her stop before she

Elva still gave me

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