Chapter 17. At His House

Annabelle’s POV

Tristan came hurrying down the enormous staircase with a wide grin on his face.

“Welcome home, Belladonna. What took you guys so long, huh?” he asked, wiggling his eyebrows. “Did you stop for a date?”

“Obviously not,” I snapped at him. It seemed he always had an inherent quality to convert all situations into unbelievably awkward ones.

Stefan ignored his comment. “Where’s everyone? I got a call from Audrey that she and Dad would be here,” he asked in an annoyed tone. Now I had the answer to my earlier question. He brought me to his house and his parents didn’t live here.

“All are upstairs in Gran’s room. Even Jules and Addy are here,” Tristan said as he followed us up the stairs. Stefan groaned out loud while I realized another fact. Julian and Adrian didn’t live here as well. The presence of the whole family together made me nervous. I had met them individually, but never together. How would they react to my presence? I was an outsider