Chapter 212BIANCAThe crack went from left to center and split into two.I had looked at it so many times that I could trace it with my eyes closed. I traced it now."I'm telling you this," she said, "not to cause you pain. Though I acknowledge that it does." The acknowledgment was the most honest thing she had ever said to me, stripped of pretense. "I'm telling you because you have been spending your energy here on hope. On the belief that someone is looking. That Rivera is suspicious, or that Klaus has noticed something, or that Louis's perception will eventually reach the right person." She set the device back on the tray. "I want you to have an accurate picture. Nobody is coming. They are at home, all of them, and they are having Saturday mornings, and you are here."I didn't say anything."When the ritual is complete," she said, "and I no longer need you, I will not kill you."I had learned that when she said something unexpected, the correct response was to wait, because the re
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