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.

inhaled a

a long time, even since she

said.

time…?” That was the most

system over time. From the duration she’s already experienced, she will

her life.”

we stop it

Veronica nodded.

we don’t stop

down. “The curse

you said,” Nicholas said. “This seems

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

noticed it.”

insides, desperation took root. “Is there anything you

asked.

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

small of my back.

hands hovering over Elva’s small

end of the bed, Julian watched with an

my attention back to her. She closed her

some words that I had no hope of

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hands back. A sizzling sound filled the air. I looked down at her

stepped closer. “Charlotte,

once!” Charlotte said and disappeared into the

Veronica said. I shook my head. It had to be painful. Beneath the black, her skin was red and inflamed.

“How?”

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

all over again. What had this girl gone through, to be here with me

that again,”

returned with ice and brought it over to us. I handed

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

within them. I understood the sentiment. We’d been

kind of talisman?”

would have had to been by the person who initially place the curse, and it would be an object very

done speaking, everyone looked

gasped, because I knew what they were inferring. It

thinking now.

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

Terry was in prison.

That only left Jane.

known for a long time now that

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own child? For her to place a deathly curse on Elva? That felt too much,

I could bear it.

to concentrate on the feel of him, to bring me

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