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.

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

to speak her

about,” I said. I placed my hand on my heart, hoping she could see the

the other girls too have noticed you walking around alone in

in and out of

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 into the cellar. But never, ever, had I

girls had seen must have been my sister Jane. But I

“I swear that w

“Maybe there’s someone who looks like me and has been doing all that. But

didn’t fully believe me. I couldn’t exactly blame her since I wasn’t telling the full

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

only because I was holding every muscle in my body extremely

that isn’t you, you better figure it out.” Tiffany pointed at me. “Because Lilliana has talked to the guards and they’re all starting to keep

before it’s

every intention of clearing it up, though not necessarily

sister and find out just what she was up to, and

her stop before she hurt someone or

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

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