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

known Tiffany to speak her

I placed my

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

and

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 gone

and the other girls had seen must have been my sister Jane. But I couldn’t just.tell that to Tiffany without exposing that I

“I swear that w

who looks like me and has been

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

just someone who looks like you, why haven’t we seen her around

was holding every muscle

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

it’s

up, though not

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

her stop before she hurt someone or

get so close to Elva still gave me

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