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.

wrapped my arms tightly around myself, but nothing could stop the hurt that quaked through me. I was

I was losing everything.

Elva

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.

gave

the truth out of Terry through his eyeballs, or tear

shook in their ferocity.

his strength filling me,

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

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

previously noticed? Why wouldn’t anyone have brought

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my body, and reached into the crevice. I yanked the photo free, then brought

closer.

on my haunches, I understood at once

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

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