Kai and Damon come face to face with an old enemy after they obtain a weapon that may be able to destroy Cade. Meanwhile, Bonnie enlists Valerie to help her rescue Enzo's soul from hell. And Cade focuses his attention on Bonnie and digs deep into her mind.
Kai and Damon stood there for what seemed like an eternity, waiting for Joshua Parker to speak. It took everything in Kai to not fight his father and send him right back to where he came from. He debated many times whether to speak first; he was getting sick of looking at his father's smug face.
"How are you here?"
Joshua stood there for a moment in silence and then cleared his throat. "I'm not. Not really. I'm not alive, I'm more of a psychic imprint from Cade." Joshua trailed off and then cleared his throat once more before continuing. "I'm trapped between dimensions because someone rang that little bell." Kai rolled his eyes, remembering Damon mentioning a fight Matt Donovan and his father had earlier this week with the bell that woke up hell. "I took a step out into the light which led me here. Then I heard you two talking about killing the devil."
"Mr. Parker, we have it under control," Damon said casually.
Joshua turned to look at him with a raised eyebrow. "You're working with my son, and I don't exactly trust either of you."
Kai's lips tightened at his father's words, "I guess I should inform you that Josie's twins are alive, just like you wanted." He paused; looking up at Joshua, who was listening intently with a slight sneer. "Both of them are siphoners."
His father swore like a drunken pirate. "Fucking hell, I guess it's over for the Gemini Coven."
"It's not. I'm training them," Kai said, feeling his blood run cold and his face run hot.
Kai watched him and then rubbed the bridge of his nose as he seemed to have an inner fight with himself and then finally spoke. "Mr. Saltzman is a fool to let you anywhere near them after you murdered his wife."
"Alaric and I are over that. The girls are more important. They'll carry on the line." Kai said, not surprised, but this hurt. More because he knew he deserved it.
Damon interrupted. "You mentioned something about having a better idea on how to kill Cade."
"Ahh, yes. But you'll have to do me a bit of a favor." The older man said informally, folding his arms as he watched his son and Damon exchange a look.
"Forget it, we'll use the dagger," Kai said, making his way towards the chamber exit.
A shadow of a smirk crossed Joshua's face. "I can offer you something even grander than just killing Cade."
"He's playing us, Damon," Kai said, half disbelieving, raising an eyebrow. "Joshua is nothing more than a liar."
That jerked a chuckle from Joshua. "I can bring the lovely Elena Gilbert back." The older man grinned. "My son used that idiot sleeping spell and luckily for you, Sheila Bennett wasn't the only witch who knew how to break the spell. Keep me out of hell, Damon. I'll bring your beautiful girlfriend back."
Kai rolls his eyes. He's just grasping at straws and they both know it. "Why would you want to do that?"
"I liked the girl. Josette spoke so highly of her." Joshua's dark eyes soften slightly. "It seems unfair that an innocent girl should suffer for your idiocy."
Kai let out a long sigh and calmed himself before things escalated. "No deal."
Damon looked properly contrite. "Now hold on, your father has a point. Elena doesn't deserve this, nor does Bonnie."
Kai's eyes glared up at Damon.
"The other poor girl to whom you linked Elena's life with." Joshua glinted in his eyes. "She, too, can be free from this unfortunate curse. Have a little faith, Malachai. Let your old man clean up your mess once again."
Bonnie had been dozing fitfully on the couch in the living room when she heard the loud crashing knocking coming from the front door. She staggered up and out of her living room, throwing open the door, blinking owlishly in the face of brilliant sunlight.
Bonnie assumed it would be her boyfriend finally returning home. Instead, she squinted at the very unlike-Kai figure silhouetted before her.
"Bonnie," cried Valerie in open merriment, holding out her arms.
Valerie slumped in resignation at Bonnie's clear lack of enthusiasm. She seemed on the verge of speaking when something caught her eye and she half-turned away.
"How's Lucy doing?"
"How do you think, Val?" Bonnie snarled awkwardly, at a loss at the sight of the blonde's uncharacteristic, wistful behavior. "Every time she wakes up, she screams out for Enzo. I had to give her sleeping pills to calm her down."
"I'm so sorry, to both of you," she said, looking at Bonnie to see if she was upset with her.
"It's not your fault that your boyfriend is a psycho," replied Bonnie brusquely.
Valerie rolled her eyes. "Ex-boyfriend."
The expression on Bonnie's face changed slightly, softening, easing the harsh, full lines. "You broke up with Stefan?"
"What he did was far from forgivable," complained the heretic scornfully, as she pushed past her. Bonnie noted with interest how she shivered almost imperceptibly as she crossed the threshold, scraping her foot along. "Caroline was so eager to get back with Stefan, so I left him with her."
Bonnie sighed. Of course, Caroline was still trying to worm her way back in with Stefan. "Then let Caroline chase after him. You deserve better."
"That's the thing, Stefan will always choose Damon over all of us." She called over one shoulder as she led Bonnie back into the living area. Her eyes roamed across the shelves. "He still holds guilt for forcing Damon into being a vampire. He'll put innocent lives at risk for his brother, who has caused nothing but pain and grief to all of us."
"I say we're better off without both of them." Bonnie was fuming inside, but refused to show any signs of it to Valerie. "We just need Damon until we get rid of Cade. Then we can all be done with the Salvatores."
"Think it'll be that easy," Valerie looked at Bonnie with hopeful eyes.
Bonnie cast her a lazy smile. "I'm getting my magic back one way or another. I'll force them out of Mystic Falls if I have to."
Valerie laughed so loudly it was practically a whoop of delight. "How can I be of help then?"
"First, we need to get Enzo's soul out of hell." Bonnie quickly tried to switch the subject.
Valerie looked at Bonnie with the same uncharacteristic concern as before. "How the bloody hell do you propose we do that?"
Bonnie swayed in place and so dropped herself down into a nearby seat. "I can still feel him calling out to me. He wants me to reach out to him."
"Bonnie, whatever darkness is reaching out to you, I doubt it's Enzo. He knows you have no means to save him." Valerie said, shaking her head in a displeasing tone.
"But you do, Val." Bonnie eyed her for a moment. "You and Kai still have magic, together we can find him, and get him out of hell."
"This is linked to Cade." Valerie blinked. An unfathomable expression crossed her face before she recovered. "This could be a trap, Bonnie."
Bonnie looked up sharply. "Maybe it is. But we can't abandon him. Somehow we need to meet him halfway."
Dialing made him nervous as well. He wasn't really worried about what Bonnie would say, more about what he could possibly say to her.
"Kai?" On the second ring, Bonnie sounds both hopeful and tired in just one breath.
"I hate that I'm calling you like this," he said, glancing around to see if anyone, in particular, was watching him. There were a couple of people at the bar sitting, and the server, but no one really seemed to pay him that much attention.
"Matt told me you went to the armory last night, and you never came back home," Bonnie said, voice firmer and there was anger creeping in there, too. "I left you several messages. What's going on, Kai?"
Kai sighed, rubbing his forehead. "Damon wanted to talk some things through. We're coming up with a new plan to kill the devil."
"We can't trust him. He's unreliable and dangerous." She said, and Kai almost smiled. Bonnie finally realized what a waste the other vampire was.
"I know he's reckless and fickle at best, but we might have more trouble coming our way and we need as many people as we can get." He paused and shifted awkwardly. "Have you made any progress on getting Enzo's soul out of hell?"
There was a sound that was probably meant to be a sigh, though it didn't even come close to a human one.
"Just got Valerie on board with helping. But nothing yet. Why?"
Kai hesitated for a moment. "If Cade could just walk out of hell, maybe Enzo could do the same"
"By that logic, anyone in hell could just walk out and return to earth." She said the confusion was clear.
He pinched his nose, but intoned anyway, "Only if they knew they could return if we could get a message to Enzo and tell him to return to our world."
Bonnie huffed, probably running a hand through her hair. "This is a weird hypothetical. We have a lot of enemies. Lots of people who would love to return to get our asses like Mikael Mikaelson or Katherine Pierce, who would love to destroy me for sending her to hell."
Kai decided to ignore that last bit. "Look I know, but right now I'm dealing with a semi-ghost problem, one who thinks he can undo the spell between you and Elena."
Holding the phone tighter to his ear, only to hear a heavy, shaking breath. "Kai, what the fuck is going on over there?"
Kai felt his throat close and his head aching. The hand that wasn't holding the phone clenched at his side, and he managed to whisper, "My dad escaped hell."
He waited. He could hear her breathing and heard it when she took a sharper stuttering breath. "Wait, your father was in hell?"
"Yep," Kai gave an empty laugh. "He won't tell me what sort of evil shit he did to end up there, but my guess is that he was an even worse coven leader than a father and husband."
A sharp sentence burst out from the other end of the line. "So he just walked out of hell. How?"
"He barely knows. Right now he's promised Damon, Elena, being freed from this curse." Kai muttered, feeling completely ashamed of himself for his lack of control.
There was some muffled cursing on the other end of the line. "We can't trust him either. Make Damon understand that."
"I'm trying Bon. But you know how Damon is when it comes to Elena." When he next spoke into the receiver, his voice was tight. "I can't leave him alone with Joshua too long before my old man convinces him I'm the real enemy."
"That's it, I'm going to find Cade." Bonnie countered, somewhat snidely.
"Bonnie, are you crazy?" he spat, close to a snap. Kai caught himself, trying to calm his already wrecked nerves.
He heard her let out a scant breath, whether in acknowledgment or exasperation he couldn't tell. "My grams once told me I was a psychic. And the only person who can give me answers is Cade. He won't hurt me. I'm a witch like him and I'm innocent. Trust me on this."
Kai sighed. He was not happy about this plan. "Of course, just make sure you don't go alone."
"I'll have Valerie on watch."
He paused, considering her suggestion. "Stay safe. Love you."
When Bonnie spoke again, her voice was warm and soft, and in a tone, she only used with him. "Love you too."
Kai hung up and tucked the phone back in his jacket pocket. His stomach twisted with guilt and worry.
"I need to at least know why you, the powerful Gemini leader, landed in hell? What the hell did you do?" Damon asked because he honestly couldn't think of anything else.
Joshua just looked tired and sad. "I'm sure my other kids told you I wasn't the father of the year. I hurt Olivia and Luke, especially when it was just them and Josie left home. I was hard on them."
It couldn't get worse.
"Hard as in?" Damon asked as he rubbed a hand against his tired eyes.
"I rough them up a bit." That didn't sound foreboding at all. "I was afraid they'd turn out like Malachai. I wasn't accepting of Luke's preferences. Olivia grew up to be a rebel and I couldn't handle the backtalk, so sometimes…"
Damon chewed on that. "You were an abusive and homophobic prick, huh? And that got you a one-way ticket to hell?"
"I'm not proud of my actions with those two," Joshua said and sniffed, rubbing at his face. "I was just scared. Malachai destroyed our family. We never recovered from it."
"Interesting how I'm always the bad guy, even when it's about your sins. It's all my fault," Kai said, raking a hand through his hair and then dropping into the seat next to Damon. "You can't own up to your own shit."
"I'm paying dearly for my sins," Joshua said, voice even, low and tight. "Even though the punishment doesn't fit the crime."
Kai gave him a dry chuckle. "You were always a shit father, long before Liv and Luke. Even now, you can't admit how bad you treated me."
Joshua didn't move for a long time, cocking his head. "I knew what you were from the start. Even when your mother was too weak to see you for what you truly were, a monster. You showed your true colors after she died. If she was only alive today, she'd be disgusted by you."
Oh, shit. Well, that explained a lot. Damon thought Joshua might have been a worse father than his own. This hatred ran deep in him.
"Have you spoken with the Missus yet?" Kai's gaze didn't waver, didn't flinch.
"She's working on something," Kai replied thickly, putting force behind each word as if it wasn't a bold-faced deception.
"Malachai, are you spoken for?" Joshua mocked, shaking his head lightly.
Kai made a rude noise, but he was trying to figure out how to answer.
Damon's eye flickered to Joshua when he noticed the dripping of blood falling from the older man's nose.
"Oh shit, looks like there might be a time limit on you being here," Damon said, the sarcasm summoned a lot easier than anything else.
Kai also took notice of his father's situation. Joshua started coughing up blood around the diner's table.
"I can feel a pull," Joshua admitted solemnly. "We need to secure my footing on earth."
"How the hell are we going to do that?" Damon demanded. His face was flushed, his body tense.
"Taking the life of a not so innocent person." He answered with a sad sigh.
"You want us to kill someone so that you can stay here on earth." Kai bit back the urge to slam his hands against his table in frustration at his father's request. "You really are an evil prick."
An eyebrow rose on Joshua's pale face. "If I go back now, I won't be able to bring back Elena. You two need me." He responded cheekily, flashing them a grin.
"He's right, Kai," Damon interjected before he could elaborate further.
Kai jerked back at that, eyes narrowing as if he could see through Damon if he stared hard enough. "He's not right, you're being an idiot."
"You did this to Elena and Bonnie. You don't get a choice on this." Damon tried to move easily. "I'll do whatever it takes to get my girlfriend back. Even kill to keep your father around."
"What happened to preserving your future with Elena, the one where you stop killing people." Tired exasperation replaced the anger in his voice.
"What's one less asshole in the world? I'm doing everyone a favor this way." Damon said and noticed Joshua's mouth twitching. "I'll go find someone to kill."
"Ms. Bennett, what a surprise to see you?" Cade's lips curled as he was sitting in a booth to the far right. "Ms. Tulle could have joined us. No reason for her to spy from outside the shop."
"Cut the crap, Cade." Bonnie scolds as she joins him in his booth. "I'm assuming you know why I'm here."
"You figured out our shared kinship. I felt that sonic blast from you." Cade replied testily. "You are very powerful, though most Bennett witches are. You might be the most extraordinary of your kind."
Alarm flashed across her features before she shrugged hesitantly. "Flattery will get you nowhere with me."
Cade's face brightened as if what Bonnie had stated was the most brilliant thing in the world. "You remind me of Qetsiyah. She was from your direct bloodline. Creator of the immortality spell and the vampirism cure. I have seen nothing as powerful and beautiful as her, that's until you."
"Why do I have the feeling you want something from me?"
His familiar icy exterior emerged as soon as the words left her mouth. "As I told your boyfriend before, I could use a witch like yourself by my side."
His eyebrows perked at her admission. "I am no longer a witch."
Cade leaned back in his seat, lifting a hand to his lips. When he spoke, he pointed at her casually. His aloof attitude seemed forced.
"Bonnie, you've had a traumatic awakening. I had the same one many centuries ago that made me into who I am today. I believe you managed to create your own psychic dimension. And if you had the power to do so, I don't doubt you can't regain your magic."
Bonnie wondered if that was part of the trust test. "Nothing has happened since I tried and tried. I can't do a single spell."
A slow smile spreads across the devil's face. "I can help you. If you are willing to open yourself up to me, give yourself to me and come along with me. I can unlock many doors for you. You'd have unlimited power. Join me, Bonnie."
It made Bonnie wonder what Cade could sense, but she wasn't going there.
"That's a hell of an offer. Being the queen of damned." Bonnie stopped, halfway backing up in her seat. "But if I'm ruling beside anyone, it's Malachai Parker."
Wariness clouded his face. "I could give you immortality."
Bonnie's eyes widened in slight surprise. "So can he. If you knew anything about the Bennett witches, you'd know we'd never take an offer from the devil."
The corners of Cade's lips pulled down, which Bonnie found less indicative of a frown than Cade trying not to smile or laugh.
"How else do you plan on finding Enzo?"
Bonnie searched his face, lips parting and then looking around before she twisted to face him again.
"Your cousin's dead fiance isn't in hell." He replied with an unapologetic smile. "I've been wondering where he's been hiding. Then I realized. Your psychic blast must have created a private dimension for him. You've been hiding him from me. I would allow him to remain there, however, the proposal would mean you come with me."
"Never," Bonnie said and shot up. "I don't know where Enzo is. And if you think you can threaten me, you have no idea the sort of shit I've been through. The number of times I've died and come back stronger than ever. I suggest you don't even try me."
She didn't look back as she stormed out of the coffee shop, leaving the devil himself shell-shocked.
"Unbelievable."
"Give it up, Kai. I will not change my mind." The vampire responded, not missing a beat.
Fighting the desire to clench his hands into fists, Kai lifted his chin defiantly. "You know what, I can't wait for Elena to wake up and find out that the reason she got to wake up early is that you murdered people to keep my father around."
Damon snorts at that. "Are you forgetting that you're the reason she's asleep?"
Kai raised a single eyebrow at him, clearly unimpressed. "No, Damon, your mother is the reason."
"You let her trick you." Damon tossed both hands in the air. "You could have said no, but you had to get revenge against Bonnie."
Sighing, Kai tried to sort his thoughts. After a long moment of silence, he spoke. "You think Bonnie likes the idea of us killing people to wake up her best friend." That got him an eye roll from the other man. "Neither of them are going to be pleased with this."
"I have no plans on telling them this." Damon laughed humorlessly. "They don't need to know the extra details."
"Aren't you worried about what Joshua wants out of this?" Kai shifted his weight and looked back at Damon, bracing himself.
Damon let out a long breath through his teeth. "He probably wants us to free his soul from Cade."
Kai paused, struggling to find the right words. "Which is impossible, so what are you going to offer him in exchange for your girlfriend?"
Damon's gaze flickered past Kai, and he did a double-take, a pitiful groan tearing out of him. "We'll deal with that after we get Elena back."
Kai followed Damon back to the front of the diner, looking for his father, who was supposed to be strapped into the car. When they got close to the Camaro, Kai noticed it was empty.
"That sneaky bastard." Kai's teeth were gritted, and he felt his control slipping. His hands, however, were slowly balling into fists.
Damon's eyes narrowed in on the empty back seat. "Fuck."
Kai moved to open the passenger side and unlatched the glove compartment. He would not let Joshua get away like this. Reaching in for a local Mystic Falls tour guide map, Kai chanted a locator spell.
"Dammit, he's using a cloaking spell." Kai threw up his hands in frustration. "That fucking weasel."
"How the hell can he use magic? He's not even alive." The vampire shook his head with barely concealed irritation.
"Who knows, and he's probably wasting what little strength he has on this spell," Kai grumbled, panic dissipating into irritation. "Which means you need to hunt him down."
"Wait, where are you going?" Damon looked at him with raised eyebrows.
His mind was racing as he tried to plan the best course of action, but he's never been good at thinking under stress. "To check on Bonnie, make sure things didn't go haywire with Cade."
"Don't go mentioning that I have to kill people to keep Joshua here." The exasperation in Damon's voice was completely unwarranted. "Please?"
A painful smile split Kai's lips. "Don't tell me you still care about her very low opinion of you?"
Damon swallowed. "I won't lie and tell you I'm completely over her." The older man rubbed his neck, taking a few steps back. "I won't stop loving her, even if she hates me for the rest of her life. Please keep this between us."
Anger sparked within him at that. Not much, but enough. "Just find Joshua, quick."
"Hear these words, hear me cry
Spirits from the other side
Come to come, I summon thee
Cross now the great divide"
Nothing changed. Bonnie blinked slowly, huffing slowly. And terrifyingly tired.
"Enzo, I know you're out there." Bonnie cried, nearly pleading. "I won't let Cade take you. I'll figure out what's going on and I'll keep you safe. That's a promise."
There was a creek at the front door. She heard it slam shut. Moments later, Kai waltz into the living room, looking around.
Bonnie sat on the opposite end of the living room, right in front of one edge of a triangle symbol, holding a string of beads. Around her were lit candles. She'd been out here chanting and going through her Gram's spellbook.
"Any progress?"
She let out a sigh. "Not really. Cade told me he doesn't have Enzo's spirit." Bonnie rubbed the back of her neck. "He believes I created a psychic world once Enzo died and hid his soul there."
"Holy shit." Kai was sort of stumped. "So that means Enzo is safe?"
"For now, Cade isn't pleased that I'm refusing to give Enzo up," Bonnie replied, sounding nervous as ever. "He's even more vexed that I refuse his proposal to rule hell alongside him."
Kai made a disconcerting noise. "He asked you?"
"Yep, I think he was probably in love with one of my old ancestors." Bonnie cocked her brow. "What happened with your dad?"
Kai closed his eyes tightly. "He ran off."
"What?" she asked shrewdly. "How?"
"He's using a cloaking spell. Apparently, he has access to his magic. So Damon is chasing after him. I came to check in on you." Kai told her in a rare moment of candidness.
"Was it wise to leave Damon alone?" she asked, not liking that he knew something that she didn't.
"He's so damn stubborn about this. But he's also right." Kai hissed, taking a step closer. "If Joshua knows a way to undo the spell, we have to try."
Bonnie felt her throat close up momentarily. She felt the knife twist in her chest. "At what cost."
"Damon doesn't really care, as long as he gets Elena," Kai said, quietly touching her gently on the arm.
"You know I'm not okay with this," Bonnie told him. Her tone was as sharp as her headache.
"Neither am I. But do you really think Elena should miss all this?" Kai asked, edging closer still, his face inches away from Bonnie's. "Jeremy is out in New Orleans in a wreck. Damon keeps following off the bandwagon. We could use a win right now."
Kai was right about that. Elena wasn't always the most helpful. But maybe with her around, things could get back to normal. Bonnie knew she could use a break from all of this, especially dealing with Stefan and Damon.
Then Kai kissed her; his lips sucking her as a wave of tranquility washed over her.
"It's been a long day," Kai said, kissing her softly. His lips started trailing down her jaw to her neck. "I could use a distraction."
Bonnie let a moan leak out when he sucked on her pulse point, marking her as his own. Kai just smiled as he pulled off her top to reveal her perky chest. Slowly, Bonnie rolled down his pants and revealed his bare cock. And he worked to remove her tight pants.
Bonnie kneels on her living room floor and starts pleasuring her man. Her warm lips, showing off how well she knew around a cock, which only made Kai more excited. Bonnie smiled as she worshiped his thick cock.
Kai pressed his fingers around the back of her head and pumped deep inside her mouth. His balls hit her chin, making her breast brush against him. Now Bonnie was getting excited herself, Kai's hips were moving and Bonnie was deep-throating him, his thrust getting deeper. It wasn't long before he lost it and shot his load down her throat. Bonnie swallowed every drop.
With a sharp pull, Kai spun Bonnie around and grabbed her body. Her wet and willing pussy pressed against Kai's fingers. A soft push and she jolted forward. Kai pulled back all the way and teased at the edge of her lips. She couldn't help the noises she made. She trusts back and forth to get stuffed by Kai's fingers.
"Stop messing around, and fuck me already." Bonnie's leg spread, showing Kai how much she needed him.
Kai gives a moan as soon as he enters her. He pushed her legs apart further and jammed into her. Bonnie's focus was on the feeling of this cock plowing inside of her.
Bonnie hums and gives soft moans, her hands coming up to drape, negligent and possessive, around the back of her lover's neck. Kai rocked back into her, sinking deeper and deeper with every thrust. Bonnie was expecting a hell of a rug burn later on.
"I need you to fuck my pussy fast and raw." Bonnie purred out. "Don't stop," she squeezed around him tightly, forcing him to drill her until her pussy tightened around him.
There was a loud buzzing sound from the floor in Kai's pants pocket. It was his cellphone. Kai pulled out to reach out for his phone and slammed into her body again as he stared at the phone screen.
"What is it?" Kai hissed. He held onto Bonnie and positioned as he is, Kai hits that sweetest spot inside of Bonnie right away, just as intended.
Bonnie could hear Damon's choked-up voice. Though she couldn't make out his words clearly.
"That lying fucker." Kai growls, and Bonnie's blood warms to the familiar tone. He was on edge, almost at his breaking point.
Her mouth opened up, ready to let out a moan. Kai quickly covers her mouth with his free hand. Still thrust into her, the wetness of her body sending him over.
"I'm on my way over." Kai moved his hips, torturously, into Bonnie's, hitting that spot over and over and over again, until she was trembling,
Kai hung up, throwing his cell across the room and removing his hand from Bonnie's mouth. Kai rocked against her, riding her body into the ground. Bonnie slung on, while Kai's cock kept jamming into her. Bonnie's moans were loud enough to wake up the neighborhood, and it managed to send Kai over the edge. He cums in her and each eruption makes her twitch underneath him.
"Fuck, Kai. That was so hot."
Kai pulls out of Bonnie, tugging a gasp from her as he does, and stretches luxuriously. Bonnie watches him, half-dazed still, and nearly feels aroused again at the sight of him.
Slowly, Bonnie's heart rate returns to normal, her breathing raspy. "What did Damon say?"
Kai frowns for a moment, that familiar crease appearing between his brows. Bonnie waits, both desperately hoping and fearing what he might say. "Joshua played us again. He stole Elena's coffin from the crypt and ran off."
Bonnie flashed her eyes. Dimly, in the back of her mind, she feels the twinge of her headache returning to her. "What!"
Kai's impassive expression fell slightly, lips pursed as he looked away from Bonnie. "I need you to stay put. Damon and I will deal with him."
Bonnie's stomach roils. "How can you be so calm?"
Kai hesitates. This is unlike him. "I know my dad. I know his game, okay. I have to deal with him on my own. So stay here with Lucy and keep your phone on."
Bonnie's blood ran cold. She felt her heart pound. She didn't dare touch Kai. He made his choice already. No matter how dangerous Joshua Parker is, this was a fight between father and son. She couldn't get involved.
AN: Only three more chapters to go. There will be a few shocking plot-twist in the upcoming chapter as Kai will have to face off his father. Stefan tries to make amends before planning his exit, and Bonnie is forced to make a life-changing decision about her friends.