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I had the limo run uptown to pick up Nara, who had no idea where we were going.
The driver let me know he’d returned with her, so I could head out front to jump in.
“Hey, gorgeous,” I said, pulling the car door shut behind me.
And boy, did she look gorgeous. Hair pulled up into a neat ponytail, loose black trousers, and what looked like another of her signature white blouses. It didn’t get much classier than that. And of course, she was dragging around her bag loaded with bricks.
I planted a hot one on her delicious lips.
“Brodie! Fancy meeting you here.” She laughed.
“Okay, so now Miss Happy is a joker?”
The late afternoon sun shone in the car window and illuminated her flawless skin. She reached over and clasped my fingers.
“Just keeping you on your toes, Mr. Hotel Guy.” She turned to fully face me. “Now are you going to tell me where we’re going?”
I looked out the window and realized we were nearly there. I nodded toward a sign.
Her brows wrinkled. “What are we doing at a heliport?”
“What do you think, Happy? We’re going for a helicopter ride.”
“No way! I’ve never been in a helicopter.”
“Well, you’re gonna love it.”
Her brows knit together. “I don’t know. Where are we going?”
“We’re flying over Manhattan and then to the Hamptons for dinner.”
Her mouth dropped open just as I’d hoped it would. “No way! I have to get to work in the morning. Even though it’s Saturday, I have a load of things to do.”
I wrapped an arm around her and pulled her to me. “Don’t worry. We’ll be in Montauk in forty minutes. We’ll have dinner and head back home. In fact, I bet I’ll have you back home before nine thirty since we’re off to such an early start.”
I opened the door and held out my hand.
“Are you coming? Or do I have to have dinner by myself?”
* * *
We were finally thirteen hundred feet in the air, both struck speechless. I’d flown over Manhattan many times, but never failed to be dumbstruck by the view from above.
Aside from the bright yellow taxis, the typical noise, movement, and crush of people were invisible from this high up. It all looked so damn peaceful. Which of course was a total illusion.
“Oh my god, there’s the Chrysler Building!”
I leaned forward to tap the pilot on the shoulder and made a spinaround motion with my finger. He knew exactly what I wanted, and got as close as he could to the building to circle it.
“Holy shit. I can see people in their offices!” She pressed her hands against the windows like a little kid.
It amazed me, too.
To see the most powerful city on Earth, where it looked about as intimidating as a sleeping baby, was just plain difficult to grasp. Her hand reached for mine as she leaned across me to the other side of the helicopter.
“Are you scared?” I asked.
She thought for a sec and shook her head. “No. Not at all. It’s so peaceful. I’m just blown away. I’ll never have the same perspective on New York again.”
That was exactly how I felt.
We finished our tour of the spit of land that was Manhattan and headed east, flying over the bedroom communities of Long Island.
Nara’s fingers gripped mine tighter when a burst of wind bounced us around, and I lifted her hand to my lips. She looked at me, quietly settling back into her seat.
“Look at the beaches,” Nara said. They were long and sweeping, and we were low enough to see the tide coming in.
“It’s so magical,” she added.
We landed a few minutes later and a cab took to dinner at Flagstone, one of the best restaurants in the small Hamptons beach town of Montauk.
Before we entered the restaurant, I turned and saw her looking at me with those blue eyes.
I took my best shot and lowered my mouth to hers.
