“It doesn’t seem like this exhaustion is directly related to her illness,” the doctor told me. We stood a

few feet away from the bed where Elva rested, watching her. “She likely got so excited for tonight that she

simply wore herself out.”

“So she’ll be alright?” I asked.

The doctor nodded. “She just needs a good night’s rest. Let her sleep. In the morning, I’ll return and

check on her.”

“Thank you, Doctor.”

The doctor saw herself out. When she’d gone, Mark approached me.

“I can watch her,” he said. “I’ll stay inside the room. No one will get past me.”

I was worried about what Jane might have been getting up to at the gala in my absence.

Mark checked his phone. He frowned.

“Something wrong?” I asked. My heart began to race.

“Still no reply from Prince Nicholas,” Mark said. “I’m wondering if he received my messages.”

“Maybe he hasn’t checked,” I said. “When I last saw him, he was busy talking with the benefactors. It

check his phone

seem convinced. “I tried to warn him

No, surely Nicholas would be able

there,” Mark

brushed some

her chest steadily rising and falling with each

dreams, princess,” I

Then I stepped away.

walked into the ballroom, I felt the weight of many pairs of eyes all pressing down onto

hear me whispered to someone else. “She changed again. Who does she think she is? None of the rest of

about. I hadn’t changed. This was still

were casting me dark looks. Only Susie waved

the ballroom first for Jane, and then for Nicholas. Jane, I didn’t see. Nicholas was

walking toward me.

side, he asked at once. “What was today’s

I answered as

only marginally. His whole body seemed wired with tension. A

of his

I asked. “Why is everyone looking at me like they want to push

said. “She pretended to be you.

had taken root in my stomach blossomed now, spreading throughout the rest

“What did she do?”

of the benefactors while pretending

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