Chapter 17

• As I entered the mansion, Alaric approached me. “Good morning Lee-Anna, you didn’t sleep here last night.’’
• I held my head down, but said nothing as I walked pass him and went to the kitchen so I could prepare his breakfast.
• As usual, the fire was humming softly in the hearth, and I am starting to think it must be an eternal fire. Because how else is this thing always blazing? It just seemed unnatural how I never tended to it, but the fire just kept going.