*Doris’ POV*
“You had what?”
“Food poisoning, Your Majesty.”
I flinched at the look on the king’s face, and looked away as Vadon turned to his sons at his side. I could feel my heart thrumming in my chest, unable to continue looking at the king and Alpha before me without my true emotions coming to the surface.
“Food poisoning?” Hawke asked. “But the physician had—”
“A simple mistake, I am sure,” I told the prince. “My prince, often the physician has been wrong in his deductions, more so with regards to the female body. Not long ago, it was that he had pronounced a babe dead to his mother when all the father had done was breathe into the child’s mouth to waken it.”
My example caused a murmur with the council around us. It was true, the story had been quite an astonishing situation that had been circulating for the weeks that it had happened around, even now some people have still lost their faith in the physician.
