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.

around myself, but nothing could stop the hurt that

I was losing everything.

if Elva didn’t make

“You’ve made it this far. You’ve survived so many things. Elva is just like you. She’ll hold on. And you’ll hold on for her. And I’ll hold on for

gave me

you or Elva, not to Jane, not to some curse. I don’t care if I have pull the truth out of Terry through

ferocity. He was earnest and

strength filling me,

And that’s when I saw the curled edge of a photograph jammed into

belong. I didn’t

been previously noticed? Why wouldn’t anyone have brought

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into the crevice. I yanked the photo free,

closer.

haunches, I understood at once why no one

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

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