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

known Tiffany to speak

I placed my hand on my heart, hoping she could see the sincerity I was trying

of, because her brow scrunched further. “Veronica and some of the other girls too have noticed you walking around alone in odd places of the palace at strange

in and out

or Julian on my arm. It could even be said that I had been in odd places, since I’d been down into the

must have been my sister Jane. But I

“I swear that w

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

fully believe me. I couldn’t

looks like you, why haven’t we seen her around during the day?

I 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 eye out

before it’s too

up, though not necessarily in

down my sister and find out just what she

she

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

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