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What?
Police report?
Oh, I got this random text from my two best friends that they…hooked up in Vegas?
She’d be laughed out of the station. Then shown the door and asked what she had to drink. And at this particular juncture she couldn’t even rely on her own judgment. So, she was sitting on the plane and praying that no one would notice her.
And she was doing a damn good job of it thank you very much. She was tucked into the last row of seats. The shades were down since everyone seemed to have had a little too much fun in Vegas on this trip.
She’d been one of the first people on the plane. She’d met the stewardess on the tarmac for God’s sake. Anxious much?
Deacon and Harper came down the aisle laughing. He scooped his wife up and sat down with her tangled around him in the seat a few rows ahead of her. They were enjoying a rare baby-free weekend. The few times she’d seen them at the family parties they’d been preoccupied with kid stuff and cooking—mostly since Harper was everyone’s favorite chef.
And honestly, she’d thought the couple had landed in that comfortable portion of married life. Chloe couldn’t remember a time that Harper and Deacon had been all over each other. The rest of the Oblivion people seemed to be much more of a handsy bunch.
Nick and Lila especially.
Chloe scrunched down in her seat and averted her eyes. Any second there was going to be some skin action.
A flash of her astride Michael intruded and she slammed her eyes shut. When the hell had that happened? She pressed her lips together and willed another memory to come forward.
No.
No, dammit.
It faded away into the darkness of the plane. Had it been in a dark corner? It didn’t feel like a hotel room. Too crowded?
“Didn’t you get enough of the Manster at the hotel, Harp?” Nick’s voice boomed through the plane.
Chloe’s eyes snapped open and the memory disintegrated like so much smoke.
Harper kept on kissing her husband and raised her hand in a special one fingered salute.
“Move along, Nicholas.” Lila pushed him further down the aisle. “I need to get some work done. Let’s go in the back.”
“If we go in the back the only work you’re getting done is on my lap, Li.”
“Dream on.”
“Want to bet?” Nick dropped into the aisle seat and dragged her against him, his face in her chest. He grinned up at Lila, seeing nothing but her. He curled one arm around and under her smart pink business jacket. Even in Vegas Lila dressed like the corporate shark she was.
Instead of putting him in his place, she cupped his face. “Didn’t you get enough this morning?” she asked on a voice that barely traveled.
But of course since she was literally two rows behind them, Chloe heard the rare husky voice loud and clear.
The pang hit Chloe low. It wasn’t like she had any lingering feelings for Nick, but he’d definitely never looked or talked to her like that. Everyone in the Oblivion family seemed to have found the perfect soulmate.
She didn’t even believe in soulmates, but there was no way to deny it on this plane.
Especially when each of the couples still acted like it was Spring Break Hedonism version well into their marriages. Yeesh, all over each other didn’t cover it.
Simon and Margo, followed by a laughing Gray and Jazz boarded a moment later. Lila looked over at the group of them. Nick reached up and turned her face back to him. “What’s up?”
“Nothing.”
He hauled her down and moved over a seat. “You are a superiorly awful liar, babe.”
Lila elbowed him. “It’s nothing.” She seemed to be craning her neck.
