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.

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

I was losing everything.

if Elva didn’t

far. You’ve survived so many things. Elva is just like you. She’ll

words gave me

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

shook in their ferocity. He was

me, I

saw the curled edge of a photograph jammed into the crevice between two

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

noticed? Why

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and reached into the crevice. I

closer.

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

to her chest.

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