“Make sure they have everything they need,” Lucas said.
“Of course. They shall want for nothing.”
“My grandmother in the study?”
“Yes.”
“All right.”
Lucas sighed running his hand through his hair before marching down the hall to the library. Like all the rooms his grandmother frequented it was on the first floor. Though the small mansion was equipped with a motorized chair to scale the stairs Alice preferred to stay on the ground floor. Knocking on the closed door he waited for her permission to enter before opening it.
“Well, Lucas. This is a surprise,” Alice said closing the book she had been idly reading and set it down on the coffee table. She motioned for him to have a seat as well but he wasn’t interested in small talk.
Alice Stanton was not a tall woman but in her younger da
