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“I am sorry for my mistreatment of you, my untrust was proven to be unfounded. It will not happen again, milady.”
“Milady… I am just… er, I mean, thank you,” I said after Ryker coughed behind me, squeezing my shoulders enough to tell me to just accept the apology and not correct this old fashion title. He nodded his head before returning to his seat without saying another word. After this, Ryker led me to four seats that faced each other and had a gleaming polished walnut table in the middle. I sat next to the window in a seat that looked more like a plush armchair in a cream soft buttery leather. It was so comfy, in fact, that I couldn’t help but shift around a little as if trying to smush my ass as far into the seat as it would go. I must have looked like a cat trying to find the best spot.
“Comfy?” Ryker asked in amusement after taking the seat next to me, surprising me because I would have thought the obvious choice would have been the seat opposite and next to the window.
“Erm, don’t you want the window seat?” I asked, and he raised his brow up in question.
“You know, to get the best view?” I said, jerking my head slightly toward the window.
“I have the only view I am interested in right here,” he said, taking my hand once more and, like in the car, he raised it to his lips and kissed the back of my palm. Again, I blushed at the compliment and tried to hide the fact by looking out the window to find that we had started to move.
“Champagne?” Ryker asked, and I turned to find the stewardess standing there holding out a tray filled with glass flutes. He picked one off for me and held it out for me to take, at the same time telling me,
“I believe it is one you will enjoy.” I frowned in confusion before taking a slip, catching Kenzo’s eye to find him winking at me.
Clearly, he had heard this and was reminding me of my limo ride. I knew this for certain when the taste triggered the memory, realizing it was the same champagne I’d had during that journey. Kenzo smirked at me before raising his own glass, telling me this piece of knowledge was down to him informing Ryker. Hence why I said,
“You don’t miss a thing, do you?” I placed the glass down on the table in front of me, as he told me,
“I make it my business to know all there is to discover about the treasure I gain and, like I said, there is none more precious than you to me.” I tried to contain my blush and hold back from sighing like some love sick teenager.
“So, what’s next then? A gilded cage of gold and a perch for me to sit on?” I commented wryly, only sort of teasing. But his response surprised me as he dipped his head lower at the same time his arm snaked across my lap.
“Mmm, now getting you in a cage of gold does sound appealing but as for the perch, well I think we can forgo that part for I would need you within reach for what I have planned.”
I swallowed hard at the sexual image he created and ended up jumping a little when I heard the click of the seat belt. Something that was followed by a little gasp of breath when I felt him tighten it, using his fist on the strap to do so. The whites of his knuckles told me he was as sexually frustrated as I was, and out of the both of us, there was only one of us that had first-hand experience in sating it.
“Wouldn’t want you flying off now, would we, Little Bird?” he said with a grin, winking at me and brushing the back of his fingers down my heated cheek.
“You’re not making this easy for me,” I told him softly, an admission that only deepened his handsome smile.
“I never said I would, sweetheart,” he admitted with ease, while caressing his fingertip down my cheek before brushing it across my lips. Then the plane suddenly started going faster, shocking me enough that I quickly gripped his hand.
“Whoa… we are taking off!” I shouted, half excited and half nervous, making him chuckle.
“Am I to assume this is your first time flying?” he asked as I turned my head to the window, glued to the sight of us taking off. I sucked in a deep breath as the plane lifted and the world beneath us started to get smaller and smaller.
“Oh my god… look at the world,” I whispered, making him hum next to me before telling me softly,
“I am looking.”
I then turned to see that just like before…
He only had eyes…
For me.
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KNOWING YOU
It soon became clear that the window full of worldly wonder held no interest for him. But I did. His eyes didn’t wander from the sight of me, and I would be lying if I didn’t admit how much it affected me. How much it warmed my heart and made me wish I knew how to gift it freely in return, just like he wanted me to.
“It looks so small from up here,” I commented, needing something to say to mask my pounding heart. But then the world disappeared and was quickly replaced by a white mist.
“Oh my god, we are going through the clouds!” I shouted excitedly, ending with a gasp as we broke through and the fluffy white blanket was as far as the eye could see.
“Oh wow… beautiful,” I said as my emotions rose at the sight, straining my voice.
