Once Joel was sound asleep, I carefully squeezed out of his hold. He wouldn’t like this one bit if he caught me trying to sneak out. Joel was smart enough to know exactly where I was going. I had roughly twenty minutes to still make it to the address that Nick gave me before he went all crazy and decided to attack my friends.
I carefully slipped back on my clothes and tiptoed out of his room, lightly shutting his bedroom door behind me. Going to see Nick probably wasn’t my best idea, but I didn’t have much of a choice at this point. It was a no-brainer if it came down to forcing myself to be with him again or to save my friends.
What was going on with Joel and me was a mystery to me, but I did know that I cared about him. If this was the only way to s
