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.

chest. He’d been so tense when I had been sitting there. But

felt comfortable enough

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

to her and find out

the hallway outside the dining room,

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

bedroom.

this

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

at first

blankets pulled up to her chest. She had a cold compress on her

away from the bed,

side. I touched the back of

A tear slipped out from one closed

here now.

soothed by my

holding that compress and watching Elva. Confident she would alert me if something else occurred, I stepped back from the bed to

came toward them, they stopped their hushed words to each other and looked at me. One

expression. The other had a pitying

fever?” I asked. “What’s

glanced at each other, then back at

is no treatment plan,” the blank one

must have

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