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

been cursed for a long time, even since she was a baby,”

said.

was the most I

the duration she’s already experienced,

her life.”

stop

Veronica nodded.

don’t stop it?” he

down. “The curse would eventually kill

Nicholas said. “This

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

noticed it.”

took root. “Is

asked.

curse.” Veronica came around to Elva’s side of

hand at the small of my back. I was grateful. Without it,

stretched her arms, hands hovering over Elva’s

bed, Julian

my attention back to her. She closed

that I

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

closer.

and disappeared into

painful. Beneath the black, her skin was red

“How?”

a small, sad smile. “I burned off the nerves in my hands years ago, at

had this girl gone through, to be here with me now,

that again,”

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

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

sprang to action at once. Nicholas perked too. Perhaps the promise of doing something lit a fire within them. I understood the sentiment. We’d been helpless too long, watching. Now maybe we could finally do something

of talisman?”

would give strength to the dark magic. It would have had to been by the person who initially place the

speaking,

I gasped, because I knew what they were inferring. It was the

thinking now.

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

Terry was in prison.

That only left Jane.

around me. I had known for a long time now that Jane hated me.

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

she wanted, I could bear it. But to

I tried to concentrate on the feel of him,

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