Chapter 0227

I nodded, just as Elva returned with her third doll.

Nicholas stayed to play until late in the morning, when his duties finally pulled him away. He hugged Elva

extra tightly before he left. He squeezed me too, though I pretended not to notice.

After lunch, Tiffany stopped me just outside in the hallway. She pulled me to the side so that we could

speak privately for a minute.

“What did you want to talk about?” I asked when we were far enough away from the door that the other

girls couldn’t overhear.

“Listen, Piper, Veronica and I have been noticing some strange behavior from you lately. It’s kind of

freaking everyone out.”

She seemed earnestly concerned, her brow bunched up.

accused me of things too, but this didn’t feel like that. Lilliana was a master

to

you are talking about,” I said. I placed my hand on my heart,

“Veronica and some of the other girls too have noticed you walking around alone in odd places of the palace at strange hours.

in and out

around in the night, though usually I had Nicholas or Julian on my arm. It could even be said that I had been in

the other girls had seen must have been my sister Jane. But I couldn’t just.tell

“I swear that w

there’s someone who looks like me and has been doing all

I couldn’t exactly blame her since I wasn’t telling the full truth of

you, why haven’t we seen her around during the day? Like, surely if you had a twin

but only because I was

Tiffany pointed at me. “Because Lilliana has talked to the guards and they’re all starting to keep an eye out

it’s

it up, though

was going to track down my sister and find

she hurt

been able to get so close to Elva still gave me shudders. She could

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