Chapter 0336

I could only cry and cry.

“I’m sorry,” Nicholas said.

“We’re not giving up,” Julian said, louder. “Maybe it’s in someone else’s garments. Which room is next door?”

“Jessica’s,” Charlotte said.

“With me, then, Charlotte,” Julian said, and the two rushed out of the closet.

Nicholas stayed with me. He rubbed my back.

“It’s not over, Piper. This was as good a guess as we could have managed. The best idea any of us had so far. Please just keep thinking. Don’t give up.”

I didn’t want to. To give up would mean to accept Elva would die.

But I felt so hopeless, and so trapped.

daughter.” I wrapped my arms tightly around myself, but nothing could stop

I was losing everything.

Elva didn’t

so many things. Elva is just like you. She’ll hold on. And you’ll hold on for her. And I’ll hold

words gave

Jane, not to some curse. I don’t care if I have pull the truth out of Terry through his eyeballs, or tear down the entire organization myself, I will never let them take you and

ferocity.

me, I

the curled edge of a photograph jammed

picture? That didn’t belong. I

previously noticed? Why wouldn’t anyone have brought it to

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the crevice. I yanked the photo free, then

closer.

upright on my haunches, I understood at once why no

when Elva was very young. A mother cradling her baby to her chest. A mother who looked very tired and very thin. Elva,

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