Making Magic: An Urban Fantasy Action Adventure series (The Witches of Pressler Street Book 2) by Martha Carr

Author:Martha Carr [Carr, Martha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MRC Publishing
Published: 2019-10-15T16:00:00+00:00

17

Laura pulled the phone away from her ear to double-check the number, then brought it back up. “Um…who’s calling?”

“It’s me, Laura. Your less-than-completely human neighbor from down the hall.”

She blinked, and the pause obviously got to him.

“O-on campus, I mean.” Nathan chuckled on the other end of the line. “I have no idea where you live. Promise.”

“Nathan…” Laura caught herself, remembering Nickie and Chuck in the other room. “How did you get my personal number?”

“You answer your personal phone with Dr. Laura Hadstrom?”

“You know what I mean.”

“Yeah.” He chuckled. “Yeah, I do. There’s a staff contact list in the main office. No snooping, I swear. Okay, a little snooping. It was in the main office in the director’s office.”

Unbelievable. Laura shook her head and leaned back in the chair. “And why are you calling me at three o’clock in the afternoon on a Saturday?”

“Well…” This time, his laugh sounded less confident. “I wanted to invite you to a party, actually.”

“A what?”

“A party. You know, where people get together outside working hours? Have a few drinks, Some friendly conversation—”

“I know what a party is.” She forced herself to lower her voice. “I just don’t know why you’re asking me to go with you.”

“You don’t?”

“No. I don’t.” Especially because he’s part Kashgar, and that is more trouble for me than I can handle.

“Huh. You don’t know why I…” Nathan cleared his throat. “Well, if I’m being honest, I enjoyed meeting you yesterday. I think you’re fun, and I’m into the fact that you’re an archaeologist. I don’t know any archaeologists, technically speaking, so I was hoping you’d say, ‘Screw it. Why not? I’ll give it a shot.’”

“You what?”

“Okay…” He exhaled into the phone, a much smaller laugh coming through. “Is this a thing you do, where you ask someone to repeat everything they say? Or is your plan to make me feel like a rambling idiot until I just give up? ‘Cause it could go either way at this point. I’m, uh, fine with whatever happens, but I just…can’t tell.”

Despite her reservations, a smile tugged at the corners of her mouth. That was refreshingly honest. I actually think he’s embarrassed.

“Are…you still there?”

“What?” She blinked. “I mean, yes. Yeah, I’m still here.”

“Well that’s a relief. So…would you like to come to this party with me?”

Laura confused herself by not saying no right off the bat. “When is it?”

“Tomorrow. I know. Why have a party on a Sunday night, right? It’s sort of a ‘Welcome to Austin’ kind of party.”

“For whom?”

“Uh…for me?” He puffed out a clipped, hesitant laugh. “I mean, it’s summer break, right? Good news for us. We don’t have class on Monday. Yay…”

Laura laughed. “True.”

“I gotta say I’m really glad you didn’t ask me to repeat that part.”

“Yeah, that’s just…” A way of hiding my cluelessness. She shook her head. “I’ll think about it, Nathan. Okay?”

“Yeah. Sure. Sounds great. Just lemme know before, say, four o’clock tomorrow? At least then I can scrub off my disappointed face before I arrive at my own party.

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