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.

He’d been so tense when I had

enough to enjoy

bitter kind of sadness wormed its way inside of me, but I pushed

to her and

my maids was in the hallway outside the dining room, waiting for

royal doctors are in with her now,” the maid said. She

bedroom.

this happen?”

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

at first she was

was in the bed, the blankets pulled up to her chest. She had a cold compress on her forehead, held in place by my quieter, second

feet away

her side. I touched the back of my

was weak. A tear slipped out from one closed

honey. Mommy’s here now. It’s

by my

second maid, who was diligent in holding that compress and watching Elva. Confident she would alert

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

other had a

I asked.

each other, then back at

plan,”

have

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