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.”

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

check his phone

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

would be able to tell the

Mark

one last time, and brushed some

her chest steadily rising and falling with

dreams, princess,”

stepped

walked into the ballroom, I felt the weight of many pairs of eyes all pressing down onto me.

hear me whispered to someone else. “She changed again. Who does she think she is? None of the rest of

they were talking about. I hadn’t changed. This was still my same gown.

casting me dark looks. Only Susie waved when our eyes locked, though

over the ballroom first for Jane, and then for Nicholas.

walking toward me.

at my side, he asked at once. “What was today’s identifying answer?”

answered as

body seemed

corner of his

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

here,” Nicholas said. “She pretended to be you. She… caused

stomach blossomed now, spreading throughout the rest of my body.

did she do?”

many of the benefactors while

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