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.

this didn’t feel like that.

known Tiffany to speak her mind.

really don’t know what you are talking about,” I said. I placed my hand on my heart, hoping she could see the sincerity I was

brow scrunched further. “Veronica and some of the other girls too have noticed you walking around alone in odd places of the

in and out of rooms!”

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

seen must have been my sister Jane. But

that w

that is, it isn’t me,” I said. “Maybe there’s someone who looks like me and has been doing all that. But

frowned at me some. I could tell that she didn’t fully believe me. I couldn’t exactly

isn’t you, and just someone who looks like you, why haven’t we seen her around during the day? Like, surely if you had a twin somewhere around,

I was holding every muscle in my body extremely tightly.

Tiffany pointed at me. “Because Lilliana has talked to the guards and they’re all starting to keep an eye out for you. You’re going to want to clear this.

it’s too

though not necessarily in the way she thought.

find out just what she

before she hurt someone

close to Elva still gave me shudders. She could have

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