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"T-M-I, Cay T-M-I I don’t want to knohat, if anything, you hook up with"

Laughing again, Caleb pulled his car keys out of his pocket "You want me to take you to work?"

"If you don’t ht now" Nick got up and stared at his evil five-hundred-pound backpack

"Really, Nick?" Caleb’s tone was drier than the Sahara "You want me to carry that, too?"

Nick batted his eyelashes at hi, handsoerated Southern drawl "Why, it’d just htful and kind"

Caleb shoved at hiroan in pain "Don’t say shit like that out loud I’ll kill you if someone overhears you and thinks you’re serious" He jerked the backpack off the bench, tossed it over his shoulder, and headed for the door

"Caleb, baby, wait! Honey, I didn’t mean to make you mad!" Nick started after him, then had to stop as a wave of pain racked him across his ribs He cursed Mason under his breath

You better hope I don’t ever catch you off campus, dickweed Next time he set soht not be an accident

"Nicky? Baby? What’s wrong?"

Nick pulled up short the instant he left the locker room and ca Texts

"Hi, Casey"

She arched both brows as she noted his ar wrong, sug?"

"Took a bad hit during practice"

"Is that why you’ve been ignoring h a list of possible responses that wouldn’t cause her to do further harle one that wouldn’t get hi you, Casey," Caleb said as he backtracked to Nick’s side "It was my fault I took his phone away I didn’t want him distracted after he’d already been hurt Sorry"

Score one for the fast-thinking dehts

Caleb inclined his head to him

"So are you done?" Casey asked Nick

"Not yet I’ve still got to go to work"

She flashed a rin at hireed that you could use a night off So it looks like you’re ned a slanced past her to Caleb Help o Your girl Your problem He handed Nick the backpack so hard that it caused Nick to grunt "You kids have fun," he said with an evil gleanored Nick’s desperate call as he headed out of the building

Coward

I heard that

Of course he did And then the rat chose to ignore it Fine, I’ll remember this, Malphas

Casey rose up on her tiptoes and kissed hiot a lot of hoet it done You always do Besides, you’re nuive Brynna so valedictorian away froraduation" She took his hand and pulled him toward the door "I have a surprise for you"

That really hten to the point he’d probably pass a diaht "I’ve learned to really hate surprises"

"You won’t hate this one"

He wasn’t so sure about that Last time he’d heard that, he’d almost been eaten by a demon

Casey pulled him to her car, then put his backpack in her front trunk

"Where are we going?" he asked as they got into the car

"You really don’t like surprises, do you?"

"Not even a little"

Sighing, she started the car and waited until they were on their way before she answered "Did you hear that Alex Peltier is starting a band?"

"Yeah, I heard hi for a druht or overly perky attitude about it "Okay…"

She turned her head to pin hiuess at all His telepathy only worked with other telepaths And since Casey was nor a vital clue Can I buy a vowel, Pat?"

To his utter relief, she turned her head back toward traffic before they crashed and beca for a druht?"

Was she insane?

"Uh … no No, I’m not"