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.

myself, but nothing could stop the hurt that quaked through me. I was ruined

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.

gave

have pull the truth out of Terry through his eyeballs, or tear down the entire organization

shook in their ferocity. He was earnest and

with his strength filling me, I didn’t

that’s when I saw the curled edge of

picture? That didn’t belong. I didn’t bring

noticed? Why wouldn’t anyone have brought it

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crevice. I yanked the

closer.

my 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 thin. Elva, a newborn, rested

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