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.”

“When I last saw him, he was busy talking with the benefactors.

to check his phone at that

convinced. “I tried to warn him about

able to tell the difference between Jane and

down there,” Mark

bedside one last time, and brushed some hair away from her face. She

and

princess,”

I stepped away.

weight of many pairs of

Who does she think she is? None of the rest of us got to

talking about. I hadn’t changed. This was still

and Veronica were casting me dark looks. Only

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

walking toward me.

he asked at once. “What

I answered

only marginally. His whole body seemed wired with tension. A muscle

of his

asked. “Why is everyone looking at me like they want to push

to be you.

my stomach blossomed now,

did she do?”

the benefactors while pretending to be you.”

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