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.

this?” 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 me. I was ruined down

I was losing everything.

if Elva

is just like you. She’ll hold on. And you’ll hold on

gave me

I don’t care if I have pull the truth out of Terry through his eyeballs, or tear down the entire organization myself, I will

words shook in their ferocity. He

strength filling me, I didn’t feel

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

belong. I didn’t bring any

noticed? Why

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crevice. I yanked the photo free, then brought

closer.

upright on my haunches, I understood at once

very young. A mother cradling her baby to her chest. A mother who looked very tired and very thin.

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