The feeling of him wrapped around her just pulled all the tension right out of her body. She was okay here. Nothing bad was going to happen. She was home.

The thought was bittersweet and she felt tears prick at her eyes. "I didn't even get the floor," she told him in a shaky voice. "It was curved, they had to suspend a cot from the side of the wall."

She took a deep, trembling breath and held onto his arm around her. "I was in my old home, Todd. The school where I lived, where I taught. They gutted it and turned into it a lab, and I was there for three years."