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.

didn’t feel like that. Lilliana was a master manipulator.

Tiffany to speak her

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

noticed you walking around alone in odd places of the palace at strange hours. Jessica

and

be said that I had been in odd places, since

person Jessica and the other girls had seen must have been my sister Jane.

“I swear that w

me,” I said. “Maybe there’s someone who looks like me

frowned at me some. I could tell that she didn’t fully believe me. I couldn’t exactly blame her since I wasn’t telling the full

isn’t you, and just someone who looks like you, why haven’t we seen her around during the day? Like,

was holding

me. “Because Lilliana has talked to the guards and

before it’s

intention of clearing it up, though not necessarily in the

track down my sister and find out just what she was up to, and

she hurt someone

to Elva still gave me shudders. She could have done

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