How to Seduce a Fireman: HarperImpulse Contemporary Romance by Vonnie Davis

How to Seduce a Fireman: HarperImpulse Contemporary Romance by Vonnie Davis

Author:Vonnie Davis [Davis, Vonnie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780007594511
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2014-10-01T22:00:00+00:00


CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Someone pounding on Quinn’s door wrenched his mind from replaying the continual loop of the gruesome details from the disastrous night in Chile. Furball wove in and out between his feet, meowing to be fed. What time was it? The room had darkened. His forefinger depressed the Indiglo light on his wristwatch—eleven-twenty. He released his firm grasp on the wooden frame of the window and straightened, rotating his head and neck to work out the kinks from his previous tense posture.

“Cassie?” Except for the ceaseless racket at the door, the apartment seemed eerily quiet. How long had he vanished into his own world?

The knocking continued, and Quinn scooped Furball into his arms. Had Cassie gone out for something to eat and couldn’t get back in? He turned on a few lights as he strode out of the hallway, flipped the lock and opened the door. “Sweetheart, did you—” The sight before him froze his thoughts before they had a chance to form into words.

Milt, his downstairs neighbor, in all his scrawny maleness, face creased into a scowl and fists cocked, bounced into Quinn’s foyer, weaving and bobbing, wearing purple shorts, white tube socks and black sandals. “Put ʼem up, you miserable lout.”

“What the hell’s wrong with you?” Quinn set the cat down on the sofa and backed up, palms outstretched to show he wasn’t going to fight the old man. “What the hell’s got your drawers in a twist?”

“You destroyed that sweet woman. Sent her off without a care for her heart. Had sex with her and then bragged about how much you loved someone else, that you gathered flowers for her bathwater and how she woke you every morning with a song.” Milt swung a couple wild punches. “My God, man, where the hell did you learn how to treat a woman? Assholes-R-Us?”

Hell, had he said that stuff to Cassie? He’d shared working for the State Department and his assignment in Chile, but, beyond that, their conversation was a blur. “Where is she?” He started to charge around the combatant man.

Milt swung at him a couple of times, never making contact, but halting him in his steps nonetheless.

“Good thing Killer’s got excellent hearing. He heard Cassie crying in the vestibule and alerted me. When I opened the door, she all but collapsed into my arms. I took her in to try to calm her.” He shook his head. “Ain’t seen a woman bawl like that since my wife lost our first baby. Poor little thing cried her heart out until she asked to use the bathroom to freshen up.”

A chill skittered through Quinn’s body. Surely she hadn’t resorted to cutting. “How long was she in the bathroom?” He started to pass Milt. “Dammit, man, is she still in there?”

Tears filled Milt’s eyes. “No. When she came out she was dazed and bleeding down both arms.”

Fuck, no. What have I done to her?

“And you didn’t think to come get me?” Anger curled Quinn’s fingers into fists, not with Milt, but with his own thoughtless treatment of Cassie.



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