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Just when the edge of the sun dropped below the horizon, something foreign brushed Nick’s senses.
It didn’t feel malicious, but Nick grabbed James, tossing the boy in the air while he laughed and shrieked.
o;Trying to get the blood flow back to the head that matters?”
she said.
“Trying to figure out if I’m committing a felony.”
“You’re not. How old are you?”
“Twenty-one.”
“Four years. We could have been in high school together.”
That seemed to settle him. “So you’re a senior?”
“Junior. And what, you’re a junior in college? It’s totally like the same thing.”
That made him smile.
“Is this more of your freaky honor code?” she said. “Murdering an innocent family is okay, but a slight gap in age—”
“They’re not innocent,” Tyler snapped.
“Quick, bang your other head against the chair. Too much thinking is going on.”
Tyler sighed. He put his hands on her waist, almost a caress.
But then he tightened his grip as if he was going to set her on her feet.
“Wait,” Quinn said, putting her hands over his. “Don’t stop it. Please.”
“Why?”
A genuine question. So she gave him a genuine answer. “Because I like you,” she said.
His thumbs stroked over her abdomen. “I like you, too.”
“Maybe we should go back to Little League,” she said.
“What?”
“Or at least the minors.”
His eyebrows went up. “Are you telling me to slow down?”
“Not for my benefit. For yours, old man.”
Now he definitely looked like he was going to put her on her feet. So she rotated in his hands to sit against him again. She pressed her face into his neck. “Sing me another song?”
He hesitated just long enough that she thought he’d refuse.
But then he picked up the guitar, set it across her lap, and started to play.
CHAPTER 16
While he slept, Nick forgot about the lunch table argument with his brothers. Or rather, his brother. Maybe it was Quinn’s drama, maybe it was the peace and quiet of Adam’s apartment, but creepy didn’t come crashing back into his brain until Gabriel opened the bathroom door the next morning, while Nick was brushing his teeth.
