Chapter 0021

After receiving Susie’s news, I needed a moment to catch my breath. I didn’t understand. The royal

doctor had already examined Elva, as recently as the day before. How could she have a fever again?

Wouldn’t the doctor have detected any anomalies before they fully formed?

Those questions would have to wait. For now, all I knew was my daughter was sick and I had to get to

I

I

gett

her.

I pushed away my soup bowl, and apologized to those around me. “I’m sorry. There’s an emergency. I

have to go.

Susie squeezed my arm, then returned to her chair.

As I hurried toward the exit, I glanced back at the table.

A bold girl had already slid herself into my abandoned seat. She must have said a joke, because the

looked at

tense when I had been sitting there.

comfortable enough to

bitter kind of sadness wormed its way inside of me, but

to

my maids was in the hallway outside the dining

her now,” the maid said. She kept pace with me as we

bedroom.

did this happen?”

me. “She seemed fine until about an hour ago. The

thought at first she

rushed in my room. Elva was in the bed, the blankets pulled up to her chest. She had a

feet away from the bed, speaking softly with each

side. I touched the back of my

from one closed

now. It’s going

my presence,

diligent in holding that compress and watching Elva. Confident she would alert me if something else occurred, I stepped back from the

hushed words to each

expression. The other

does Elva have a fever?” I

at each other, then

treatment plan,” the blank one

have misheard. “Excuse

a

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