#Chapter 79: Blackmail

Tessa

Mira looked like a deer in headlights as she glanced back and forth between me and Gretel. She clutched her book so tightly to her chest that I thought she might snap the hard cover in half completely.

“W-What?” she finally blurted out, an unconvincing little smile touching her lips. She shook her head, causing a few strands of short brown hair to fall into her eyes. “Nothing’s going on. I