Chapter Nine

Chapter Nine

I look at Lucas’s car that’s parked right in front of the porch. “If this doesn’t work, you can move fast enough to come back inside before you explode, right?”

“I’d burn for a good few seconds before I’d explode.”

I hike one eyebrow and look up at Lucas. He’s standing next to me, and towers over my frame. I’m taller than the average woman, and Lucas is much taller than the average man. Even as a human with no special powers or enhanced strength, he was intimidating.

“That doesn’t answer my question.”

“Yes, I can move fast enough.”

“Good,” I say as I let out a breath. “Because you dying would really fucking suck, you know.”

“I’d hope.”

After getting everything sorted out with work, I laid out in the sun until my skin got too hot to stand it anymore, and then went inside to tell Lucas we should go to Chicago and finally have that hot date.

I showered, packed my bags, and cast the same spell on the car windows that I used in the house. My stuff is in the trunk, and my famil