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“We should watch a movie,” she said.
His arm was around her, and his thumb ran lazy circles over her skin. “I thought we didn’t have much time.”
“Right now, I don’t think I care.”
Nick chuckled. “Neither do I.”
She untangled herself and stood up, but the doorbell rang, and she sighed.
“I guess things were going too well,” she said. “I’ll be right back.”
She grabbed the clothes she’d lost and pulled them on, glancing over at Nick as she left the room. He was just wearing his jeans, and when he caught her looking at him, he grinned.
The doorbell rang again.
Cara hurried down the hall and opened the door without checking who it was.
“Dad?”
Her father gave her a tentative smile. “Hey, Cara. Can I come in?”
“Uh, sure,” she said, looking up to make sure the door to the living room was open. She could only hope that Nick heard the voices.
Her father already hated him because he was a void. If he found Nick shirtless in Cara’s living room, he might actually kill him.
“Thanks for talking to me,” her dad said, walking inside and heading straight for the open door. “I know things have been rough between us recently.”
“No problem,” Cara said. She ran her fingers through her hair, making sure it didn’t look crazy, and hurried after him. The hallway was too narrow to get past him without making it obvious, so she just held her breath and waited for him to go into the living room.
The room was empty, and she tried to hide the sound of her relief.
She looked around as her dad walked through to the kitchen and pulled out a chair. Nick’s shirt was still lying on the couch, and she slipped a cushion over it when her dad wasn’t looking.
“How are you doing?” Eric asked. “How’s college going?”
“Good,” she said, sitting down and wondering where Nick disappeared to. Her eyes landed on the back door leading from the kitchen out to the back.
“And your friends? How are Quinn and Julia?”
“They’re good,” Cara said. “Listen, Dad, we don’t need to do this. If you’re here to talk about the coven, we don’t have to dance around it.”
He sighed. “The elders haven’t made a decision.”
“So why are you here?”
Eric raised an eyebrow, and she blushed.
“I mean, you’re always welcome, obviously, but you know what I mean. Why are you here right now?”
“I don’t trust the void,” he said.
“Nick,” Cara said. “His name is Nick.”
“I know what his name is.”
Cara glanced at the door again, wondering how much of this Nick could hear. This house wasn’t exactly soundproof.
“Where is he?”
