Chapter 0023
When I returned to the bedroom, Elva was missing from the bed. I nearly screamed, were it not for both of maids, who quickly approached me.
“W–where’s Elva?” I asked them, panic quaking my voice.
“You caused a right commotion, running around,” the talkative maid said. “It was enough to catch the
attention of Prince Nicholas.”
Nicholas? “He’s still at the banquet…?”
I remembered looking back at him as I was leaving. He’d been smiling at an eager girl desperate for his
attention.
“The banquet is still occurring,” the maid said. “He must have excused himself early.”
Why would he do such a thing? Surely he hadn’t overheard what Susie said about Elva? Even if he had, he w
wouldn’t have cared… would he?
“Prince Nicholas.came in here,” the quieter maid said. “He felt Elva’s fever, and then carried her out of
this room himself.”
My mind was a spiral of fear and worries. I struggled to think straight. I only knew that wherever Elval
was, I had to be near her.
Nicholas wouldn’t make her leave the palace, would he? She was just a little girl.
No. No, as much as he’d changed from three years ago, he wouldn’t hurt Elva. I was certain of that. Especially when I thought of how gently he had held her when she ran to him at the mixer in the parlor.
But where would he take her?
He was a prince. Nowhere in the palace was off–limits to him. Where would I even begin looking?
couldn’t go to his room. That was a grave offense. Nathan had made clear that it could cost me my
eded to be strong for Elva. I needed to be alive.
the bedroom, trying to think I wanted to scream in frustration.
I quickly went the guard. Sensing my urgency, he maintained a fast pace as he led me through the back hallways of the palace, through places Nathan had not included on his tour.
Visiting off–limit places was surely allowed if I’d been summoned, right? I didn’t have time to worry. I’d
equipment and microscopes.
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