The Seven-Year Reckoning

~Evelyn~

I had made a mistake.

I knew it the moment Raina turned to me.

Not the dinner. Not Nathaniel. Not the seating plan I had spent three days constructing like a woman who believed every situation had a correct move. The mistake was older than that. It was seven years old, and it had been sitting in this dining room with us the entire evening, and I had been looking at the centerpiece and pre