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“Now we have to play.”
“I wouldn’t recommend it.” Ella inclined her head toward her cousin. “Adelie is even more vicious than I am.”
Adelie’s cheeks colored. She folded her arms. “I’m really not.”
I grinned. I rose to my feet and strolled toward the cockpit and back. Checking the time on my phone, I pocketed it again.
“We have about forty-five minutes left until we get there. We might as well do something fun to pass the time.”
“Don’t you have work you need to do or something?”
My grin cracked. “Finally.”
Her brow bent. “What?”
“You’re talking to me. I’ve been trying to get you to do that this whole time.”
Ella’s lip twitched. Not a smile, but it was movement, nonetheless.
Something told me her smilewould be magic.
Still, it didn’t count.
“I guess a game won’t hurt,” she said, lining her knitting needles together and tucking them and the rose-colored blanket she’d been working on into the bag at her side. She then placed the bag at her feet.
“You in?” I asked Adelie.
“I’ll watch,” she said sweetly.
“Oh, no,” Ella said. “You’re playing.”
“It’s on.” I took my seat across from the two women, eagerness spilling into my bloodstream. I couldn’t wait to get this woman to drop all her secrets, to get her to loosen up, kick back, and do something crazy.
“Mr. Danielson,” Ella began.
A groan leaked out. “Don’t call me that.”
“You—what should I call you then?”
I may be the CEO of a company, but that didn’t mean this was a formal occasion. Was that why she’d been so quiet this whole time? Did I come across as being a stuffed suit?
“We’re not at a business meeting. I want to be your friend. Call me Hawk.”
Her eyes thinned. She considered this for a moment, twisting her lips in a way that made them far too absorbing.
“Okay, then. Hawk. Truth or dare?”
My entire body went alert. “Dare. Hit me with it.”
“Just like that?”
“Let’s see what you got.”
She inhaled and gazed around the cabin, leaving me in suspense.
Was she going to make me dance? Remove items ofclothing? Call someone? There wasn’t much we could do from fifteen thousand feet up.
The sounds of soaring through the air filled the pressurized space around us. Clouds drifted along the window to my right, and the jet’s wing was also visible.
