Chapter 10
“Loose ends are never a good thing. It doesn’t matter if the loose ends are someone else's or your own. They always unravel and leave some poor i***t naked … or staring at some other i***t who’s naked. In case you’re having trouble following along, it’s a metaphor people. Quit trying to read ahead to see if someone ends up naked. Geeze." ~Nick
When Nick could no longer hear the other two couples speaking, he knew they’d walked far enough away to have a private conversation. He’d been wondering when Kara would finally bring up her frustration over her age and how protective Peri was, and rightfully so. She was seventeen, a minor. Well, a minor in some countries. In others, she would be considered an adult. But that was beside the point.
Nick found a cluster of trees where ther
