A Life Debt Repaid

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.

helping my mom with my dad’s

done—we’re just waiting for the actual event next week,” Quinn replied

back to work from now

keyboard as she looked up at

he soon realized

into work every day, he would not have time to

antsy but

press the issue or explain his blatant lie about being at work

Eventually, Quinn sighed softly.

moment, she was not confident that she could get Sam to get his act together or if she had the ability to stay oblivious should he fail to give up

overwhelmed and choose to

not love him before, but she could not take it now that she