"He has you all on a pretty tight leash," Elena commented, taking another gulp of her coffee. "And he seemed pretty anxious to prove just how easy it was to get to them."
He'd targeted Jeremy, had almost killed Alaric in the process. And when she'd sent Jer out of town Kol had managed to track him down, anyway.
"I won't sacrifice them just so I can live. Enough people have done that." Things were hitting far too close to home. She needed to deflect the attention away from herself again.