#Chapter 154: Sister Talk

This meeting with my parents has gone surprisingly well and I’m feeling optimistic about it. So much so that I even feel uplifted as I start to leave. For the first time in a while, I feel like I have a set path in front of me. Ending things with Hugo, and now plotting a new career path leaves me feeling more excited about my future than I have in a while. Well, really, since Miles and Selena became engaged. I hate to place all my problems at their feet. But it certainly didn’t help my morale. Well, no matter. Things are finally feeling like they are back on track. Gathering my things, I’m in the entryway, when a voice stops me from behind. “Esther, can we talk?” I look over my shoulder to see Thea standing on the stairs. In an oversized sweatshirt and pajama shorts, she looks like a kid again. It makes it much harder to ignore her. “What do you have to say?” I ask her, opening a door that I should probably leave closed. But, even with all of the resentment between us,