#Chapter 245: Welcome Home

Tessa

I hadn’t been here in years.

Eight years, to be exact. I hadn’t set foot on the Vance estate since I had been a lonely, frightened, grieving young mother who just wanted to find her daughter. Wolfless, childless… Just less. Lesser than Blair. Lesser than my stepmother.

What really hurt was that the estate looked almost completely different. Once, it had been a magnificent structure of red br