Chatper 376


    Chapter 0377


    “F ucking bleed out, you stuck pig,” Jane growled. She ripped the knife out of my thigh, and somehow


    that hurt worse. The blood poured down, staining the front of my dress crimson.


    I trembled. I couldn’t find words, only cries of pain.


    “You think I have any lingering feelings for you? For Elva?” Jane crouched over me. Her face was


    twisted with vicious mockery. Her lip was curled in disgust. “”I have hated you since the womb, bit ch. I


    have lived and dreamed for this moment. And now that it is here?” Jane began tough maniacally.


    Even in my pain, I felt my broken hard cra ck even further. I didn’t truly understand how I could have


    still cared about Jane. She’d shown her true colors to me many times – attempting to kidnap Nichs,


    cursing Elva…


    Maybe I had hoped that underneath it all, she could somehow be redeemed. She’d held a knife to my


    throat before, but even then, I hadn’t fully been sure she’d push the de into my skin.


    But to see her now, so jovial in the face of my unbelievable pain? This eliminated all remaining doubt.


    Jane meant to kill me. She had from the start, but now she had the means.


    She was enjoying my pain. She wanted to bring Elva into the underground. She wanted to bring down


    the royal family. And like this, broken and tattered and weak, I could do nothing to stop her.


    I could only lie here as the blood pooled under my thighs, spreading around me so that my dress is


    soaked with it.


    I could only watch, as she lifted the knife toward the column of my throat. My neck was still marred with


    love bites from Nich  s’s tender attentions. Would Jane slice through those? Or could I remain


    Nich s’s until the very end?


    I wished I had more time with him. I would have been more honest about what I wanted… what he


    meant to me.


    I wished I could say goodbye. To him. To Julian. To Susie, and the rest of my friends. To Anna.


    To Elva…


    My darling little girl. When she’d been abandoned, I’d stepped into the role of doting mother so that she


    would never feel alone.


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    But now I was going to have to leave her anyway.


    I closed my eyes and sent a plea. I couldn’t see Nichs, couldn’t hear him… but maybe he could still


    receive the message somehow, if the universe chose to be kind.


    Please take care of Elva. She won’t understand.


    Something quaked through my body then, like a roar that wasn’t my own. It was almost…forting. It


    made me think of Nichs. Of his protective instincts. Of his kind heart.


    He was good with those orphans. He wouldn’t leave Elva out in the cold. Nor would he let Jane have


    her without a fight.


    I tried to let the thoughts warm me, but I was growing very cold.


    Blood loss, I knew.


    The end was near for me.


    Jane pressed the knife right up against my skin. A trickle of too-warm blood dripped down my cold


    neck.


    “I hate you,” Jane said, voice twisted and ugly with her malice.


    I looked at her, and even now, could see the girl she was when we were young. Her pigtails. Her bright


    eyes. The way she always followed me.


    Tears fell from the corners of my eyes. I couldn’t stop them. I didn’t even want to try.


    “I love you, Jane,” I said, because it was true. Even now, even after everything. She was and always


    would be my sister. I could hate her, and I did, but I loved her


    too.


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    Her face contorted further, evil joy reced now by vicious fury.


    “Eat dirt, Piper!”


    I closed my eyes, and waited for the kiss of metal to slice through my neck. Goodbye, Nichs.