“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
to check his phone at that
Mark didn’t seem convinced. “I tried to warn
surely Nicholas would be able to
get down there,”
went to Elva’s bedside one last time, and brushed some hair away from her face. She was
her chest steadily rising and
dreams, princess,” I
Then I stepped away.
the ballroom, I felt the weight of many pairs of eyes all pressing down onto
whispered to someone else. “She changed again. Who does she think she is? None of the rest of us got
no idea what they were talking about.
of the candidates were glaring at me. Even Tiffany and Veronica were casting me dark looks. Only Susie
the ballroom first for Jane, and then for Nicholas. Jane, I didn’t
walking toward me.
side, he asked at once.
dust,” I answered as
marginally. His whole body seemed wired with
of
everyone looking at me
was here,” Nicholas said. “She pretended
in my stomach blossomed now, spreading throughout the rest of
“What did she do?”
the benefactors while
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