“Was making us all wait down here like this really necessary?”
Elizabeth sat down on the staircase, facing the large main entrance to the house.
It was only her, Selene, and Sawyer who were waiting there and she wondered whether that was because Francesca was not invited or if it was because she had refused to be there. Sawyer had wanted it to be as casual and non-threatening as possible, and she had known that meant Jonas would not be with them, but Francesca was a part of their strange little family unit and it felt as if she should be there.
They were the only ones in the house – Sawyer had made the others give them privacy as a way of making it less intimidating when their guests arrived, but Elizabeth felt it had the opposite effect. He wasn’t bringing them in to a building with
