After that doozy of a text, I called Constance to discuss her prediction. Once learning her real identity, I"d been reticent to refer to her as Madam Zenya, the famed seer of all things evil. For all her kookiness and burdens, Constance was a sharp and kind woman. I was grateful she hadn"t fought my unscrupulous purchase of her family home, which incidentally, wasn"t my fault.
I hadn"t known Hiram Grey stole it from the Garibaldi family fifty years ago, claiming both Constance and her sister, Prudence, had died and he was the beneficiary. When Constance resurfaced and shared the sordid tale of Hiram"s misdeeds, we worked out a compromise for me to keep her house. After much deliberation, rather than refer to it as The Old Grey Place, we settled on the name Garzenwyck as an ode to all thre
