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 to my foundation. Even if everyone lived, how

I was losing everything.

if Elva didn’t

so many things. Elva is just like you. She’ll hold

words gave me

the truth out of

in their ferocity.

with his strength filling me, I didn’t

curled edge of a photograph jammed into the crevice between two

belong. I

previously noticed? Why wouldn’t anyone have brought it

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the crevice. I yanked the photo

closer.

haunches, I understood at once why no

young. 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 of her mother’s

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