42 Chapter 42

My phone was ringing again. With a sigh I looked down at it and then held my breath for a second before I managed to pick it up and swipe. "Hello?"

"Cassidy?"

"Hi, Dr. Sanderson," I said, mostly for my friends' benefits. They both froze and put their laptops aside again.

"I was just calling to check on you, lil girl. How are you doing?"

"Fine," I muttered. What are the chances he would be calling to check in on me just a few minutes after my sister told me about Jack and that she's going to Paris? I didn't think this was a coincidence.

"You been leavin' well enough alone?" he asked. I glanced down at my computer, which was currently pulled up to the vampire website.

"Uh, yeah," I said, glancing over my shoulder out Lucy's window. Could he see me?

"Good." His tone conveyed that he might possibly believe me. "Remember what I told you about letting all of this go, Cassidy. There ain't no sense in you tryin' to figure out a bunch of stuff that doesn't concern you."