After dinner, Thea brought Jesse to the study to report in.

The study continued Dante's style, very classical with an entire wall of books and another wall adorned with a vigorous calligraphy, "Words must be followed by actions, actions must yield results."

Paintings, antiques, jade ornaments... Thea and Jesse had seen plenty of these under their father's roof, but he never allowed them to touch or taught them how to appreciate them; both of them were outsiders to such things.

Chelsea sat, casually flipping through a volume of "Miscellaneous Records," seemingly indifferent as she listened to Thea recite the house rules.

There were a hundred rules, and Thea hadn't studied...