*Jo POV*

After a quick goodbye with my mom, and a promise to call her as soon as I got settled, I found myself walking with Nikko to his car. He insisted on taking all of the bags out while I was talking to my mother, so we just walked hand in hand. He took a step ahead of me and opened the front passenger door, stepping aside for me to get in.

"Not in the back seat today?" I asked, looking inside, "Where is Byron?"

"It's just us today," he said and ...