Chapter 0333

“What do you mean, ‘dark magic?”” Nicholas demanded. I was glad he still had his voice, because mine was totally gone, I had a suspicion that I knew exactly what Veronica meant, but I wanted to hear her say the words.

“I mean a curse,” Veronica said,

I inhaled a shuttering breath,

“It’s possible that Elva has been cursed for a long time, even since she was a baby,” Veronica said.

“So… all this time…?” That was the most I could manage,

“The curse, if dormant, would slowly wear down Elva’s immune system over time. From the duration she’s already experienced, she will have a weakened immune system for the rest of

her life.”

“That’s if we stop it now,” Nicholas said,

Veronica nodded.

“What happens if we don’t stop it?” he asked,

Veronica looked down. “The curse would eventually kill her,”

“Eventually, you said,” Nicholas said. “This seems faster than eventually,”

“Yes.” Veronica looked at Elva again. I followed the length of her gaze, trying to see what she saw. All I saw was my little girl, asleep with labored breathing. “The curse is being amplified, It’s much stronger than it had been previously. Before, it had been so latent that I hadn’t even noticed it.”

As fear clawed away at my insides, desperation took root. “Is there anything you can do?” I

asked.

“I can attempted to ebb the flow of the curse.” Veronica came around to Elva’s side of the bed, a

I stood up to give her room. Nicholas kept his hand at the small of my back. I was grateful, Without it, I might have fallen/over.

Veronica stretched her arms, hands hovering over Elva’s small body.

At the end of the bed, Julian watched with an unusually grim expression.

Sparks flickered in Veronica’s palms, snapping my attention back to her. She closed her eyes, and muttered some words that I had no hope of hearing.

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Chapter 0333

“What do you mean, ‘dark magic?”” Nicholas demanded. I was glad he still had his voice,

because mine was totally gone. I had a suspicion that I knew exactly what Veronica meant, but I wanted to hear her say the words.

“I mean a curse,” Veronica said.

a shuttering

been cursed for a long time, even since she

said.

That was the

over time. From the

her life.”

we stop it now,”

Veronica nodded.

happens if we don’t stop it?”

curse would

said,” Nicholas said. “This seems faster than

at Elva again. I followed the length of her gaze, trying to see what she saw. All I saw was my little girl, asleep with labored breathing. “The curse is being amplified. It’s much stronger than

noticed it.”

clawed away at my insides, desperation took

asked.

attempted to ebb the flow of the curse.” Veronica came

Nicholas kept his hand at the small of my back. I was

stretched her arms, hands hovering over Elva’s

the end of the bed, Julian

attention back to

muttered some words that I had no hope

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been burned, she gasped and snapped her hands back. A sizzling sound

stepped closer.

and disappeared

It had to be painful. Beneath the black,

“How?”

off the nerves in my hands years ago, at my

over again. What had this girl gone through, to be here with me now, willing to help

do that again,”

it over to us. I handed it to

will do it again,” Veronica said. “But not until it’s necessary. It would be

too. Perhaps the promise of doing something lit a fire within them. I understood the sentiment. We’d been helpless too long, watching. Now

of talisman?” Julian

of object nearby that would give strength to the dark magic. It would have had to been by the person who initially place the curse, and it would be an object very special to them. Something that

she was done speaking, everyone looked

what they were inferring. It was the same thing I

thinking now.

who wandered the halls. The one who knew all the secret

Terry was in prison.

That only left Jane.

a long time now that Jane

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child? For her to place a deathly curse on Elva? That

I could bear it.

of him, to bring me back to

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