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.

too, but this didn’t

Tiffany to speak her

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

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

and

wandering around in the night, though usually I had Nicholas or Julian on my arm. It could even be said that I had been in odd places, since I’d been down

have been my sister Jane. But I couldn’t just.tell that

“I swear that w

it isn’t me,” I said. “Maybe there’s someone who looks like me

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

her around during the day? Like, surely if you had a twin somewhere around, someone would have noticed

only because I was holding every

has talked to

it’s too

up, though not necessarily in

instead, I was going to track down my sister and find out just what she

before she hurt someone or

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

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