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

a

said.

That was the most

curse, if dormant, would slowly wear down Elva’s immune system over time. From the duration she’s already experienced,

her life.”

stop it now,”

Veronica nodded.

don’t stop it?” he

curse

said. “This seems faster

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

noticed it.”

clawed away at my insides, desperation took root. “Is there anything you can

asked.

the flow of the curse.” Veronica came around to

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

her arms, hands hovering over Elva’s

the bed, Julian watched with an

flickered in Veronica’s palms, snapping my attention back to her. She closed

that I had no hope

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if she had been burned, she gasped and snapped her hands back. A sizzling sound filled the air. I looked down at her hands, they

closer. “Charlotte, get some

said and disappeared

my head. It had to be painful. Beneath

“How?”

a small, sad smile. “I burned off the nerves

girl gone through, to be here with me now, willing to help Elva even at detriment to

do that

ice and brought it over to us. I handed it to Veronica, who placed it

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

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

kind of talisman?” Julian

It would have had to been by the person who initially place the curse,

she was done speaking, everyone

knew what they were inferring. It was the same

thinking now.

been in this room. The person who wandered the halls. The one who knew all the secret passages

Terry was in prison.

That only left Jane.

a long time now that Jane

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kill her own child? For her to place a deathly curse

she wanted, I could bear it. But to

feel of him, to bring me back to

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