Chapter 53: Dinner From Hell

LUMINA

The dining room had never felt more like a battlefield in my life than it did that evening. I sat in my usual chair, the one I always used when coming here for countless family dinners over the past six years, but tonight it felt like I was sitting in the enemy's territory.

The table was swinging a precise setting – seven place settings instead of our usual five, with Sophia who was seated directly opposite me and Riley was seated beside Ollie.

Samuel had taken his usual place at the table. As the head of the family although I could see the tension...