Alaric's POV:
"You're coming to pick me up this evening, right?" Mack asks me over the phone as I walk down the stairs.
"I'm sending someone I got things to do", I reply.
"I see, can we have dinner at a restaurant tonight? Sarah can come as well."
"No."
I will not be seen in public until my nose is completely healed.
"We can have dinner here just the two of us."
"Can I make dinner then?"
"Sure."
"What will Sarah be doing?"
"Overtime at work."
"Really? She isn't coming home to have dinner with her dear husband? I told you she's bad news."
"She's just busy Mack, isn't it better that she doesn't see you right away? She isn't fond of the idea you're staying here in the first place."
"I guess you're right, I'll see you later then."
"Where's Nathan?"
"He went to New York on a b
