#Chapter 201: The Birthday

Tessa

“Keep your eyes closed,” I warned Maisie as Gideon and I guided her up the front steps of our newly rebuilt home. “No peeking.”

“I’m not peeking,” Maisie sighed, even though I could see her looking through her fingers clear as day.

It was Maisie’s eighth birthday, and also moving day. The house had been completed just in time, thanks to the tireless efforts of the construction crew who had w