Chapter 212 A United Front

• Agnes
• The silence in my living room was deafening.
• I had told Evelyn and Gertrude everything—about my elemental abilities, about Thea being my biological daughter, about Olivia’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. Evelyn had topped them off at some point and I’d hardly noticed.