Chapter 0250

“It doesn’t seem like this exhaustion is directly related to her illness,” the doctor told me. We stood a

few feet away from the bed where Elva rested, watching her. “She likely got so excited for tonight that she

simply wore herself out.”

“So she’ll be alright?” I asked.

The doctor nodded. “She just needs a good night’s rest. Let her sleep. In the morning, I’ll return and

check on her.”

“Thank you, Doctor.”

The doctor saw herself out. When she’d gone, Mark approached me.

“I can watch her,” he said. “I’ll stay inside the room. No one will get past me.”

I was worried about what Jane might have been getting up to at the gala in my absence.

Mark checked his phone. He frowned.

“Something wrong?” I asked. My heart began to race.

“Still no reply from Prince Nicholas,” Mark said. “I’m wondering if he received my messages.”

said. “When I last saw him, he was busy

be rude to check his phone

Mark didn’t seem convinced. “I tried to warn him about Jane…”

surely Nicholas would be able to tell the difference between Jane

better get down there,” Mark said, and I

Elva’s bedside one last time, and brushed some hair away from

chest steadily rising and falling with each

princess,” I whispered.

I stepped away.

I walked into the ballroom, I felt the weight of many pairs of

hear me whispered to someone else. “She changed again. Who does she

what they were talking about. I hadn’t changed.

Even Tiffany and Veronica were casting me dark looks. Only Susie waved when our

the ballroom first for Jane, and then for Nicholas. Jane, I didn’t see. Nicholas was hurriedly

walking toward me.

asked at

I answered as quickly.

whole body seemed wired

of

“Why is everyone looking at me like they want to

to be

fear that had taken root in my stomach blossomed now, spreading throughout the rest of

did she

of the benefactors while pretending

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