The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 250

“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

be rude to check his

Mark didn’t seem convinced. “I

don’t think…?” No, surely Nicholas would be able

get down there,” Mark

went to Elva’s bedside one last time, and brushed some hair away from her face. She

her chest steadily rising and falling with

princess,” I

Then I stepped away.

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

me whispered to someone else. “She changed again. Who does she think

what they were talking about. I hadn’t

Veronica were casting me dark looks. Only Susie waved when our eyes locked, though she looked more

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

walking toward me.

he stopped at my side, he asked at

dust,” I

His whole body seemed wired with tension.

corner of

everyone looking at

here,” Nicholas said. “She pretended to

my stomach blossomed now, spreading throughout the rest of

“What did she do?”

purposefully insulted many of the benefactors while pretending to be

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