Read Online A Life Unexpected: Holly Nather Book One (Holly Nather Series) by Sara Daniell - Free Book Online

with Brody. He always seems so annoyed with life in general.
    “Chill out. I was joking! I knew it’d piss you off, man.” Jett’s laughing so hard. Brody rolls his eyes and continues looking at the road.
    I look out the window, trying to find road signs to see where we’re going. Right now, all I can tell is that we are on a major highway and how fast we are allowed to go by the speed limit signs.
    “I love you,” Luke whispers in my ear as he puts his arm around me. I look at him and smile. I am not ready to say I love him. Without a word, I lay my head on his shoulder.
    He lays his head on top of my head and asks, “You’re not going to tell me you love me back yet, are you?” I shake my head no, laugh and kiss him on the cheek. He rolls his eyes and smiles.
    “I’ll tell you when, and if I fall in love with you. Being under the ‘yours’ status is not a guarantee that I will stay. I am ‘yours’ for now. This is merely a trial period.”
    “Oh, give it time my little mortal, you’ll love me.”
    I roll my eyes and laugh. “You sure have a lot of confidence.” I turn to look out the window to try to spot another sign. “So, where are we going?” I ask, changing the subject.
    He laughs. “Trying to change the subject?” Smiling, he says, “Not sure. We are going to make a last minute decision so the Poyen can’t track us as easy.”
    “Oh. Don’t we have that protective thingy around us where they can’t see us?”
    “Not right now. We can’t stress our magic out, so we will put it back around us when we are somewhere safe.”
    “Oh,” I say, sounding unsure. All this magic stuff is new to me. I don’t understand it at all.
    “Luke, we are going to have to tell the college something. They are going to get suspicious when we are all missing and haven’t been to class,” Brody says while looking at Luke through the rear view mirror.
    “They can’t know anything about me or Holly. You guys can tell them whatever you want.”
    “If you two are trying to lay low from the public, then why are we checking into a hotel? There are missing signs up everywhere for Holly.” Jett’s right.
    “Damn. I didn’t think about that.” Luke rubs the back of his neck in frustration.
    “Sorry for interrupting, but if you guys have magic, then can’t you do some magical thing to fix all of this?” I now have a lot of eyes glaring in my direction. Did I say something wrong?
    Luke shakes his head. “Holly, it isn’t that easy. We can’t use our magic like that. Our magic could really cause a mess here on Earth. Our world was made to handle our magic. Here, it could cause an imbalance in the environment and cause major problems. We only use magic we know is safe and won’t cause any problems.”
    I nod my head like I know what he’s talking about. I really have no idea, but what he said makes sense. I guess.
    “Let’s just make camp somewhere in the middle of nowhere. We can make tents and build a fire. We can create food. It’ll be fun. Like a camping trip,” Mason says while annoyingly chewing a piece of gum. This time he has all eyes glaring at him. I take it no one is in the mood for camping.
    “What?” Mason says in a high pitched voice.
    “We didn’t pack for that,” Brody says, being his usual serious self.
    “Dude, we are freakin’ magical beings! We will survive!” Jett says and sings the, we will survive, part.
    “I guess it won’t use too much magic. It will be safe. Luke, is that cool with you?” Brody asks.
    Luke shrugs his shoulders and nods his head. “I don’t care where we go. The only thing that I care about is protecting Holly.”

 

     
     
    BRODY PULLS TO the shoulder and turns around. I guess he knows of a spot. We drive around for what seems like forever, and I fall asleep.
    “Holly, wake up. We are here,” Luke whispers in my ear, while brushing my cheek with his hand. I yawn and look out the window. It’s starting to get dark outside.
    I get out of the