[ BOOK THREE ]
Ryan Mikaelson has spent his entire life hearing stories about his family and their past. The infamous Original family. The villains of the supernatural world. His world. But now, it's his turn to make his own mark.
Now a student at...
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CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
Kai Parker Screwed Us
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WITH A PLAN set into motion, Ryan and Josie hauled an unconscious Alaric Saltzman from the floor of the bar and placed him in the sole chair on the stage. Chains were wrapped around his body and secured with the padlocks used on Kai Parker years earlier, making sure that the man could not follow them when he woke from his forced sleep.
"You do know Kai's gonna double cross us if we find a way out of here, right?" Josie voiced as she snapped the last padlock through the chain loops.
Ryan raised his hand from where it rested on Alaric's forehead, having placed a protection spell on the man. Just in case one of the mystery occupants decided to make an appearance and he could not escape the chains in time. "Yeah, probably. That's why we gotta stay one step ahead of him."
Josie looked to the Mikaelson boy and asked, "so, where do we start? He already said that he isn't going to tell us anything for free. We don't have anything to offer him."
"He doesn't know that," Ryan replied, meeting her gaze. He racked his brain for something that could help further their precariously partnership with the crazy Parker man. His eyes drifted from Josie's face to the bulge in the backpack on her shoulders. The Sandclock. "We could ask for help looking for the Sandclock," he said and returned his stare to the girl. When her brows furrowed, he continued. "Think about it. We don't have any Bennett blood to get out of here, so we need something with a lot of power to charge the spell."
Ryan did not know what made him think of the substitution. But, it was true. Without a drop of Bennett blood, they would be stranded inside the Prison World. If they wanted to escape, they needed something powerful enough to override the key component of the spell. Black Magic, while volatile and unstable, could do just that.
Not the best option, but they did not have many left to choose from.
Josie thought about his suggestion as her forehead creased in concentration. "It could work," she agreed, although a her tone dripped in unease.
Before Ryan could calm her worries, a sharp gasp erupted throughout the room. He snapped to where Kai laid on the floor, twitching as he returned from his temporary death.
"Oh, I should have seen that coming," Kai groaned out as he pushed himself up from the linoleum. "Okay. First death's free, Ric, but I'm warning you, if you that I'm..." he trailed off when he spotted the two teenagers next to Alaric's restrained form. "Well, I definitely didn't see this coming."
Ryan looked to Josie, and they exchanged an identical glance. Time for them to play their game.
"We didn't want him trying to stop us," Josie told her resurrected uncle.
