Elias
“What could have changed for Gran to switch from not believing to running off an entire family that had been there for two decades?” Ginny asked. “It couldn’t have been just because of you two holding hands.”
“I never found out,” she said. “We’ve never discussed it. They didn’t even know that Elias was Barty’s. I didn’t want to put you through that, and I didn’t want to start a family war again.”
“Why did you and Gran start talking again?” she asked.
“Because I was pregnant with a girl,” she said. “Girls were rare in our family and I knew that Gran would have wanted to know.”
“Why?” I asked.
“For centuries, our blood line didn’t produce females,” she said. “I was the first in probably sixty years and my great great aunt Mary was the one before then. I didn’t know that Argus h
