CHAPTER 153

  "Stop talking too much, you will give me a migraine!" I heard the voice of Nadia say and wondered if it was a dream or in real life. I couldn't open my eyes because, for whatever reason, my eyelids felt like logs.

  "I can't believe we are going to have a baby! She would be so overjoyed with the news!" Mary cried out, and Nadia grunted something concessional in reply.

  Baby?!

  I think that did the magic, at once my eyes flew open and my hand went to my stomach instinctively to observe. There was a moment of silence and then chaos broke through.

  "Danika!" Nadia.

  "Danika!" Mary.

  "Oh, my! She is awake! Inform the King at once!"

  "The doctor!"

  "Hurry up!"

  And two flighty arms wrapped me into a turbulent embrace. "Thank the goddess that you are awake. We had the worst fears of our lives for the past four days."

  "Four days?" I asked in apprehension. "What happened to me?"