Thirteen
GRAY
I found Addie and Haley with Verona and the other witches in the common room, all of them sitting around the fireplace, chatting and laughing over tea and cookies as if the last twenty minutes hadn’t even happened.
“Deirdre’s here,” I said to my sisters, deciding to leave the Sebastian stuff for later. “She needs to talk to us. Says it’s urgent.”
Haley and Addie headed back to the kitchen with me, Addie smoothing her hair on the way. She’d yet to meet our grandmother, and I had no idea how she’d feel when she finally did, but I was pretty sure this wouldn’t be a happy reunion. Not for any of us.
We found Deirdre sitting alone at the table, exactly where I’d left her. She spared a brief glance for Addie as we approached, her eyes misting at the sight, but then it was like
