Chapter 14
Chloe was indeed gone by the time Paul stumbled out of bed late
the next morning. He felt a little awkward in the strange, empty
house, so he decided to do a little exploring. He puttered around,
poking through drawers and looking for signs of who owned the
place. There wasn't anything that led him to believe that anyone
actually lived here. The kitchen was fully stocked with three
different kinds of silverware and a ton of cheap, mismatched
ceramic plates. There were two blenders. Everything was
immaculately clean and recently dusted. It all looked to him not
like someone's beach house, but rather like a vacation rental. He
knew this area teemed with such places, which went for hundreds of
dollars a night. Was Chloe just renting the place for the week or
did she re
