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.

I 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

I was losing everything.

Elva didn’t

things. Elva is just like you. She’ll hold on. And you’ll hold on for her.

gave

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

in their ferocity. He was earnest

me,

edge of a photograph jammed into

I didn’t bring any photos

had been previously noticed? Why wouldn’t anyone

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into the crevice. I yanked the photo free,

closer.

understood at once why no

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 peacefully

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