A Life Debt Repaid novel (John and Cordy) novel Chapter 1452

Sam froze when he saw Quinn, his face falling like he was caught red-handed doing something bad.

By then, Quinn had calmed herself down enough to accept that Sam did not actually change fundamentally, though her chest started heaving when she saw his reaction.

Even if she was ready for the worst, she thought there was a chance there had been a misunderstanding. After all, Sam might have been doing something important and not what she was thinking.

However, was his reaction just now not a sign of his guilt? What else would it be?

Quinn's eyes turned red thoroughly, but she quickly hid it and pretended nothing happened.

On the other hand, Sam needed some time to recover and ask, "When did you get here?"

"A while," Quinn replied vaguely, keeping her head down sorting through some documents so she looked busy.

"Weren't you helping my mom with my dad's birthday celebration?"

"It's all done—we're just waiting for the actual event next week," Quinn replied calmly.

"Oh. So you're coming back to work from now on?"

Quinn's fingers paused over her keyboard as she looked up at Sam. "Do you not want me to?"

"No," Sam quickly said, but he soon realized that he had made a mistake.

If she came into work every day, he would not have time to slip out and get things done with Cordy and Zoe.