“Looking up her vlog,” Kurt replied, tapping on his phone. “I’ve got to see that video.” He scrolled with his finger and tapped again. After a few more seconds, he said, “Ah, I think this is it.”

“How did you find that so fast?”

“Her membership form said she worked at the antique shop here in town, so I figured her vlog would be connected to the website. I was right.”

“Oh.”

As Kurt started the video, curiosity got the better of Adam, and he moved closer. The moment Preslee appeared on the screen and her soft voice reached his ears, warmth filled him, and he found himself smiling back at her. Well, at the phone screen anyway. The endearingly sweet woman was talking about some new antiques coming into her store soon, and her excitement was infectious. Clearly, she was passionate about her work.

Adam could relate.

As she wrapped up, Preslee said a quick farewell to her viewers and then reached for her phone. Adam expected that was where the video update ended and her misadventure with the stair-climber began, but that wasn’t quite what happened. Well, it was. Just not particularly in that order.

Instead, he watched her fumble for her phone, heard a beep on the machine, and then she began cursing like mad as the machine sped up to a level that even he wouldn’t dare attempt. She ran hard, breath panting out of her, as her hands held a death grip on the side bars.

Although Adam knew she was no longer in danger of injuring herself, he couldn’t help but hold his breath as the seconds ticked by. Seeing the panicked expression on her face a second time and the terror shining in her eyes up close and personal did something to him that he couldn’t explain. Like he wanted to jump through the screen and save her all over again.

No sooner had the thought occurred than the machine slowed to a stop and Adam appeared on the screen. Huh? Oh. It was when he hit the emergency stop button. Guess she hadn’t turned off the live feed when she thought she had. Which was fine. Or it would have been if Adam hadn’t known what was coming up next. Damn it. He cringed in horror as he realized that they were about to watch the one part that he didn’t want Kurt to see…again.

Kurt sat quietly with a huge grin on his face, clearly knowing what he was about to witness for the second time. Then his buddy laughed. “Ha! I knew it. You did sniff her hair. Like some kind of weirdo pervert.”