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.

when

felt comfortable enough

way inside of me, but I

was sick. I needed to get to her and find

the hallway

are in with her now,” the maid said. She kept pace

bedroom.

did this

me. “She seemed fine until about an hour ago. The

first

in my room. Elva was in the bed, the blankets pulled up to her chest. She had a

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

I touched the back of my fingers to her cheek. She was

weak. A tear slipped out from one closed eyeild and talled down her

now.

seemed soothed by my presence, enough to fall

was diligent in holding that compress and watching Elva. Confident she would alert me if something else

came toward them, they stopped their hushed words to each other and looked

The other had a pitying

I asked. “What’s her new

at each other,

plan,”

have misheard.

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