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“Thanks, but your opinion matters little. Mr. Young’s on the other hand.”
“No worries. He loves us.” Meg used a glass panel in the back of the cabin to check her makeup. Meg thought everyone loved her. She was probably right. She was quite loveable.
Meg continued, “He’s had a smile on his face ever since your premier of Callie’s Mile High Lap Dance Club.”
“That’s not funny.” Callie finished tying up some loose ends to shut down the plane.
“It’s a little funny,” Jonathan mumbled.
Meg put away her lipstick in her giant purse. “And now we’re stuck in Mexico.” She leaned toward Callie. “With a charming and gorgeous guy. So one of us is getting lucky, and by the way Mr. Tall Dark and Legal keeps looking at you, Callie, I’d say you’re holding the winning hand in poke-her.”
Callie rolled her eyes. “This is business. Why do you guys not get this? That’s not happening.”
Jonathan finished turning off the instrument panel and unbuckled. “The plane is off. We’re not on duty. It’s now time for pleasure, boss.”
That wasn’t the way things worked for Callie. There were boundaries in her life. She’d already broken one with Trent. No contact with exes. How women did the “stay friends” thing was beyond her, but granted, most of those men probably hadn’t cheated.
Pleasure was meant for another day. She hadn’t brought a change of clothes along. This suit would be all she’d be in for the foreseeable future, and it said all business.
Callie walked first out of the flight cabin. “Mr. Young, I hope the journey was to your liking.”
He held out a hand, and she grasped it firmly. “Captain Laurel, I’m more impressed than you’ll ever know. I wasn’t sure how you’d get us down safely, but you did it like we were landing on a pillow, not in hurricane winds. Thank you.”
In her mind, they returned to their professional relationship, and all was forgotten.
“Have you heard from your brother?” she asked while releasing his hand, her mind memorizing how warm and soft his touch was, much to her dismay.
Liam pulled out his phone and held up the darkened screen. “I turned off my phone on the flight. Safety first.”
She appreciated that he’d taken the precaution. The FAA implemented the rule, but she didn’t make it hard and fast. The interference was minimal, and to keep the customer happy, they’d decided to forgo insisting that electronics be turned off. But the rule still applied in her mind, and she was thankful he’d followed it for safety.
His brow scowled.
“Everything okay?” Callie asked.
“My sister asked me to call her ASAP.”
Callie’s stomach clenched. It would be rough to make it all this way to find out that Sam had passed while they were in flight. No. She wouldn’t imagine that scenario. Her heart cracked to even picture it.
“Excuse me.” He stepped to the back of the plane, and Callie could hear the woman answer on the other end with a shrill shriek. It was definitely Ms. Massive Orgasm. “Britt, hey, calm down, please. What’s going on?”
Callie held off as long as she could. She shimmied past Liam and into the bathroom in the back.
“Brittney, I can’t understand you.” Liam turned his back to the bathroom door.
Callie could still hear one side of the conversation through the door as much as she tried not to.
“I can’t believe Trent would do that. Are you sure?” He softened his voice, but without the plane turbines going his voice snuck through. “That could mean lots of things. You need to talk to him.”
Callie stood and washed her hands and stayed closed in. When it came to Trent the things he wouldn’t do seemed like a short list. But still, no one deserved the treatment that he’d given her. Even if Ms. Screamer had been part of their demise, she didn’t wish the same on any person.
Callie had recognized Trent in the waiting area of Millard Airport. She’d ignored his demands for her attention as they’d walked to the plane. She didn’t owe him anything other than to get Liam to Mexico safely and Sam and Liam back to Omaha. It wasn’t avoidance of an issue. It was self-protection. She’d let him run her over once, never again.
“Are you going to ask him about it?” Liam asked.
Callie caught the scent of Liam’s cologne under the bathroom door, and the woodlands fragrance messed with her head. Clean and virile. She let her mind wander for just a moment to what a quick fling in a tropical destination might be like. Could she throw caution to the hurricane and let the real Mother Nature take over between them?
Liam returned to the cabin and chatted with Paul. Callie rejoined them after grabbing her purse from the flight deck storage locker.
