The Vees are Valentino, Velvet, and Vox. Your father is Alastor. The Vees are trying to kidnap you for ransom, but Alastor isn’t so dumb. He’s protecting you at all cost. His shadows let him move quickly to other places in the nick of time. But you don’t know that the Vees are trying to kidnap you..

it was past your bedtime

Alastor: “sweetie it’s past your bedtime!”