Stranger?

When Derek had been asked to go and make sure that the other tenant was safe. He had thought on the fact that the old man did not know him at all. And yet was trusting him with such a task. 

After all, he could have been a mass murderer on the run. But when he had been thinking that he had forgotten something else. 

What if instead of thinking about himself as the dangerous one in that situation? He should have considered that there was danger waiting for him outside the motel. Derek should have been more worried for his own safety. After all, why should he, somebody who was a guest at the motel. Have to brave the darkness instead of the owner being the one to be out there?

But the thought came too late for Derek, because it came right after a body collided with his. At first he froze thinking that he was being attacked.