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.

sister is trying to kill my daughter.” I wrapped my arms tightly around myself, but nothing could stop the hurt

I was losing everything.

if Elva didn’t

“You’ve made it this far. You’ve survived so many things. Elva is just like you.

gave

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

ferocity. He

me, I didn’t feel so alone

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

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

it had been previously noticed? Why wouldn’t anyone

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the crevice. I yanked the photo

closer.

my haunches, I understood at once why no one thought this

A mother cradling her baby to her chest. A mother who looked very tired and very thin. Elva, a newborn, rested peacefully in the cradle

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