“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

convinced. “I tried to warn

be able

better get down there,” Mark

last time, and brushed some

rising and falling

princess,” I

Then I stepped away.

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

again. Who does she

what they were talking about. I hadn’t changed.

casting me dark looks. Only Susie waved when our eyes locked, though she looked more worried than pleased to see

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

walking toward me.

he asked at once.

dust,” I

His whole body seemed wired

of

is everyone looking at me like they want to push me

Nicholas said. “She pretended

my stomach blossomed now, spreading throughout the rest

“What did she do?”

many of the benefactors while pretending to

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