A Life Debt Repaid novel (John and Cordy)

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.

Quinn could see that he was antsy but said nothing as she returned to work.

Sam did not press the issue or explain his blatant lie about being at work earlier.

Eventually, Quinn sighed softly.

At the 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 philandering.

Would she be overwhelmed and choose to leave?

She was fine when she did not love him before, but she could not take it now that she did.

The office turned silent with neither of them initiating a conversation-not even when it was time for the 3 PM meeting. Sam never said a word and left the office with Danny.

On the other hand, Quinn was left staring at her computer, unable to get anything into her head.

She had no idea why Sam suddenly changed when everything was just fine earlier. Was his attention span really so short?!

Her heart ached, and she tapped into her chat group with Cordy and Zoe, needing somewhere to vent just then or she would get depressed.

Quinn: [I think Sam has changed.]

Zoe was the first to reply, and she was actually agitated.

Zoe: [You noticed?!]