Chapter 13
Quinn watched Doug walk carefully down the steps into the sub-basement, wishing she’d gone on ahead of him after all. Unlike her gut-clenching fear when she thought the furnace was grinding itself into jagged, soon-to-be-airborne pieces, now she was nothing but eager to get down there and check it out.
The only thing she wished for more was that she hadn’t slipped up and kissed him like that.
Sometimes getting entirely too close and comfortable with an old friend and former lover was not at all a good thing. Even if getting that close to Doug felt as natural as breathing.
And if the touch of his lips against hers had fired up parts of her she thought died out with her early twenties.
He paused to shine his phone’s light around the top of the opening in the floor, then reach
