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.

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

I was losing everything.

Elva didn’t make

said. “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

gave me

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 Elva

their ferocity. He was earnest and

his strength filling me, I

opened my eyes. And that’s when I saw the curled edge of a photograph

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

previously noticed? Why wouldn’t anyone have brought it

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and reached into the crevice. I

closer.

on my haunches, I understood at

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

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