Chapter 0338

It didn’t make any sense. Unless Jane was trying to cut out that part of herself that loved Elva. Maybe she saw Elva as a weakness that needed to be purged,

Go ds, either way, it was just too sad. Not just for Jane, who had truly become a monster, but also for Elva, who nearly became a victim of her own mother’s love.

“This can never happen again,” I said to Nicholas.

“It won’t,” he vowed. “I will protect you both. Even if that means…’

He didn’t say it, wouldn’t for my sake. But I knew what he meant.

To protect Elva and me, he would kill Jane himself.

Everything was just so sad. Tears welled in my eyes.

“I’m sorry,” he said, misunderstanding.

I shook my head. “My sister has been dead a long time. It’s her as a little girl that I mourn now. The one who stitched rocks into her pockets and gave me a friendship bracelet. I feel like that photo was the last hold the person she is now had to the person she was. And now it’s burned away.”

Nicholas tightened his hold. I buried my face in his chest to hide my tears.

her time inspecting Elva, then gave her more medicine. By the time she was ready to address Nicholas and I, I had shed most of my

again.

doctor said, and no, I lied. I definitely had more tears to cry. They were happy ones this time,

myself. I jumped back as soon as I realized I had done it. “I’m sorry,”

inconclusive. I wasn’t sure what to think. But

“She is,” I agreed.

doctor left some medicine with Charlotte and then

I crawled onto the bed beside

arms.

mind if I stay?” Nicholas

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and he sat

too. Not on the bed

comfortable.”

him away now, when the matter was

told him. “You

out, but I imagined that was to go

room as well, taking watch on the chair near

wrapped his arms around me, and I

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