The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 21

After receiving Susie’s news, I needed a moment to catch my breath. I didn’t understand. The royal

doctor had already examined Elva, as recently as the day before. How could she have a fever again?

Wouldn’t the doctor have detected any anomalies before they fully formed?

Those questions would have to wait. For now, all I knew was my daughter was sick and I had to get to

I

I

gett

her.

I pushed away my soup bowl, and apologized to those around me. “I’m sorry. There’s an emergency. I

have to go.

Susie squeezed my arm, then returned to her chair.

As I hurried toward the exit, I glanced back at the table.

A bold girl had already slid herself into my abandoned seat. She must have said a joke, because the

people around her laughed. Even Nicholas looked at her and gave a relaxed smile.

jumped in my chest. He’d been so tense when I had been sitting

comfortable enough to

bitter kind of sadness wormed its way inside of me,

was sick. I needed to get to her and find out what was

the hallway outside the

maid said. She kept pace with me as we

bedroom.

this

me. “She seemed fine until about an

first she

the blankets pulled up to her chest. She had

doctors, presumably, stood a few feet away from the bed, speaking softly with

hurried to her side. I touched the back of

was weak. A tear slipped out from

okay, honey. Mommy’s here now. It’s going

my presence, enough to

she would alert me if something else occurred, I stepped back from the bed to

toward them, they stopped their hushed words to

other

a fever?” I asked. “What’s

at each other, then

is no treatment plan,” the

must have misheard. “Excuse

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