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

rude to check his phone at that

“I tried

able to tell the difference between Jane

down there,” Mark said,

and brushed some hair

steadily rising and

princess,”

I stepped away.

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

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

I hadn’t changed.

casting me dark looks. Only Susie waved when our eyes locked, though she looked more worried than

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

walking toward me.

he asked at once. “What was today’s identifying

dust,” I answered as quickly.

exhaled, but relaxed only marginally. His whole body seemed wired with tension. A

of his

everyone looking at me like they want to push

was here,” Nicholas said. “She pretended to

root in my stomach blossomed now, spreading throughout the rest of

she do?”

the benefactors while pretending to

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