#Chapter 212: A United Front

Tessa

The silence in my living room was deafening.

I had told Evie and Gretel everything—about my elemental abilities, about Maisie being my biological daughter, about Vivienne’s deception and my father’s machinations. The story had taken longer than I expected, and now the clock was ticking well past one in the morning, but our wine glasses were freshly filled. Evie had topped them off at some po