Hopeless Hope

"Where is this?" I asked without hiding my suspicion.

I knew very well where the Vulkan mansion was located and also what it looked like, and the place that we had just parked in front of couldn't look more different than the mansion that I remembered.

"You didn't think that we would take you to our home, did you?" Mrs. Vulkan snapped before looking away with a clear look of disgust on her face.

"I guess your home would be the first place that Bradon would look when he finds me missing," I replied dismissively.

"No more chit chat," Bradon's father said as he urged me out of the car.

I told myself that it did make sense that they would find a place for me to stay, but did it have to be such a shabby-looking place?

The isolated low-rise building looked like it could use a round of maintenance. The room that they led me to was simple, with a single bed, a television, a desk, and absolutely no windows.