#Chapter 53 The offer

A servant answered the door. "The Luna is expecting you upstairs if you would please follow me." She bowed, and led us up the stairs. I swallowed a lump in my throat, looking towards the dark stairs that led to the basement. I remember before when I'd expected to proceed upstairs towards luxury, but they'd dosed me with blood's bane. The fear in those memories was a force inside me that I had to ignore. I looked upwards towards the beautiful furniture laced with gold and the finest paintings of all the Alexander Alphas over the generations. At the end of the hallway was one painted of Jacob standing in his imposing stature with Jennifer sitting beside him on a gold and velvet throne. It was strange like seeing the life I should have had, the face I used to have only colder and crueler looking back at me from that wretched work of art. We followed the servant around a corner to a lavish room with a small circular table. Jennifer sat beside anothe