Are you here?”The voice was familiar and comforting and seemed to come from far away. She snuggled against Jared. Light was filtering into the room so it was day, but she had no intention of getting up. With the way she felt, she might stay in bed forever.She felt him kiss the top of her head and move even closer. “Last night you earned the name of American Living Legend,” she murmured as she fell back asleep.“Alix? Are you upstairs?”She heard the voice again, so very familiar. “Just another minute,” she said, her eyes still closed.But then they opened abruptly. “It’s my dad,” she whispered.“So it is,” Jared said, his arms holding her tightly.She turned over to face him. “It’s my father. You have to leave. He can’t see you and me … together. You have to climb out the window.”Jared lay back in the bed but he didn’t open his eyes. “When I was sixteen I was too old to do something like that. And now … Besides, we have to tell your father sometime.”At that thought, a feeling of panic ran through her.
