"What the hell!" I yelled.
"Look, Hope is it?" the man asked. I nodded in response.
"Hope, I need you to calm down a bit. We will sort all of this out, but in the meantime I need you to stay calm, maybe go downstairs and find something to eat with….Kealey," the man thought.
"I'm not doing anything until you tell me why I was just kidnapped by a psychopath and nearly killed out of vengeance on whoever you are!" I shouted frustrated. This was really not my day.
"I understand, my name is Alaric Saltzman. I will answer your question as soon as you tell me why that girl saved you," Alaric said. So now he was demanding answers.
"I have no idea. I have never seen her in my whole life," I answered truthfully. Alaric looked down for a moment, deep in thought.
"Ok, you were kidnapped by a guy named Malachai Parker," he told us.
"We already know that," Kealey said bluntly, finally speaking up.
"A few years ago he met my friends Bonnie and Damon when they were…traveling," Alaric continued, a bit hesitant, "Bonnie and Damon needed some help getting back home, and Kai was willing to do it, also wanting to be back home. One day, Bonnie was going through her house, cleaning it, and she found an old newspaper about a murder that took place a few years back. It was about Kai Parker's whole family was slaughtered, and how Kai was a convicted murderer on the run. She was shocked so she called for her friends to help, and he ended up in prison," Alaric explained.
Not knowing what to say, I remained quiet.
"Why did you ask about that blonde chick?" Kealey wondered.
"That's a story for another time, for now you two need some rest," he said, "Lizzie and Josie will show you around."
"Wait, dad," Josie said. They're his children...I was not expecting that. "If that was Kai Parker…as in like our mum…" she trailed off. Alaric nodded, and Josie glanced at the body on the floor.
"He said something about turning twenty-two, what does that mean?" Lizzie asked.
"Nothing you need to worry about," Alaric replied. The girls nodded and walked away, motioning that we should come too.
