Chapter 6

At noon, the palace doctor arrived at the estate on time. After examining Elara's pulse, he went aside with Caspian.

I floated closer and heard the doctor tell Caspian, "The Lady is not pregnant."

So Caspian *had* suspected I was pregnant.

That's why he cared.

If I had indeed carried his child, he would have moved to eliminate it quickly.

"Hmm," Caspian said faintly.

"My Lord need not worry. The Lady's pulse is steady and healthy; her body is in good health. If My Lord desires an heir, this year will surely bring news." The doctor assumed Caspian wanted a child.

Caspian's eyes moved. "She... is in good health?"

"Yes, perfectly healthy," the doctor affirmed.

Caspian looked towards Elara in the distance, then instructed his aide, "Go inform the Sterling family. Tomorrow, I will accompany the Lady on a visit to her family home."

In our three years together, he had never once voluntarily gone to the Sterling estate.

He rarely even received my parents when they came.

But he must not have discovered anything, otherwise, given his methods, if he found the Sterling family had deceived him, by now, not even a chicken or a dog would be left alive.

Elara was quite uneasy when she learned he was going to the Sterling family home tomorrow. "My Lord has only seen me for half a day. Has he figured out I'm not Lyra Sterling?"

But she quickly composed herself. "No, he hasn't noticed, otherwise, he would have taken my head by now."

"But the palace doctor must have said something that aroused My Lord's suspicion. Daisy, have someone find out immediately."

She was clever.

The children raised in a prominent family like the Sterlings would naturally not be incompetent.