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.

will I ever survive this?” I said. “My sister is trying to kill my daughter.” I wrapped my arms tightly around myself, but nothing could stop the hurt that quaked through me. I was ruined down to my foundation. Even

I was losing everything.

Elva didn’t

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.

gave

to some curse. I don’t care if I have pull the truth out of Terry through his eyeballs, or tear down the

their ferocity. He was earnest and

his strength filling me,

when I saw the curled edge of a photograph jammed into

didn’t belong. I didn’t bring any photos from

Why wouldn’t anyone have brought it

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my body, and reached into the crevice. I yanked the

closer.

understood at

her baby to her chest. A mother who looked very tired and very thin. Elva, a newborn,

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