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I fully intended to apply the same tactic that Greyson had when he had approached Mr. Thompson in Florida. I would tell them just how much it would help them out in the long run to be able to have what would practically be free advertising in these hotel rooms. I wasn’t sure if I would run into the same issues with those owners that I had back in Florida, but now I felt that it was something I would be able to handle on my own.
And with that level of power in me, I felt that it wasn’t going to be an issue at all to keep this project going as planned. Or, perhaps even faster than planned considering how much I was able to handle myself. And with a rough idea in my head already of what I wanted to do in the hotel in California, I knew that it wasn’t going to take me nearly as long to plan out the space or the pieces that were going to fill the rooms.
I had already spoken with Jason about what he wanted done in the hotels, and I knew I would be able to carry that on throughout the rest of the chain. He would, of course, need to see the picture proof of how things were going for me in the actual execution of the rooms, but I had full confidence things were going to be even better than Florida.
I even felt that I had that promotion in the bag.
I’d told Greyson already just how much it meant to be able to get through this job without too many setbacks, and he had come through for me again and again with his help. I halfway hoped that he would be able to give me the same kind of confidence when we arrived in Cali.
Not that I needed his help.
But, there was something about the way he made me laugh that made me feel on top of the world. I could not understand what my friends all meant when they said they had found the person who just made the world make sense. Rory, Wrenley, Raya, and the others had all looked to me like they just abandoned what we had decided on when we were younger, but I could see now that wasn’t the case.
Not at all.
Not with what I felt when I was with Greyson.
He was filling my mind almost all the time. Even when I walked back into the cabin to start up on work again, all I could really think about was Greyson and what he was doing up in the cockpit. He would be concentrating on the plane, I was sure about that, but more than that, I wondered if he was up there thinking about me with the same amount of feeling that I thought about him.
I couldn’t get him out of my head even if I wanted to. But, for the first time in my life, I was thinking about someone who I didn’t want to get out of my head. I was happy to sit and just think about all the parts of him that I liked. The way he looked at me, the way he smiled. The way he laughed. His sense of humor alone was enough to make me giggle.
Everything about him was so infectious, I couldn’t spend enough time with him.
I felt that the more time we spent together, the more I would want to spend with him. I would never get tired of it, I was sure of that. But, I also knew I had to be careful. This wasn’t the way I ought to be thinking about someone who was being paid to spend this time with me.
If it wasn’t for the money, he wouldn’t have been my pilot for the next few months, and we would have gone in our different directions. With that being the case, I wasn’t sure if it was smart for me to even consider thinking about him this way.
I didn’t want to get hurt, and it scared me to think that when this all came to an end, he was going to go back to being a pilot in one part of the city, and I would go back to my designer job in another part. There would be no reason for us to see each other again, and with what I had already said to him about this not changing what was going on between us, I hoped that he hadn’t taken that to mean I wasn’t interested in being with him at all.
While the thought of starting a relationship with him scared the shit out of me, the thought of losing him also scared the shit out of me. I hated the thought of that more than anything, but I wasn’t sure what page he was on with this. I wasn’t even sure if he would be looking for a girlfriend at this point in his life, and I knew if I were to let myself get carried away in these thoughts about him, then it was going to wind up blowing up in my face.
Still, I didn’t want to be the kind of girl who was always scared to do anything. It had seemed so easy for my other girlfriends to find the men they had in their lives, and they just went with it. I knew there were things that they struggled with during the early parts of the relationship, but for the most part, it seemed to me that they were just so willing to be with the men they had found, they didn’t stop to worry about all the little details that I found myself tripping over.
I did my best to push it out of my head when we landed, and I immediately turned my attention back to the logistics of where we were supposed to go and who we were supposed to meet.
True to form, my company had already contacted a ride for us to get from the airstrip to the hotel, so we had very little waiting to do.
On the way over to the hotel, however, I made a confession to Greyson.
“You know, this is the first time I’ve ever been in California with someone I wasn’t working with directly,” I told him.
“Oh really?” he asked. “I’ve been here quite a bit. You like Mexican?”
“It can be a little spicy at times, but I like it,” I said. “Why? Do you have a place in mind?”
“My favorite restaurant is down closer to the boarder. If you have time tomorrow, I would love to take you down there. It’s going to be a bit of a drive out of LA, but I think it’s worth it. I’ll rent a car and take you myself,” he said.
“I would like that,” I agreed. “It must be good if you’re willing to rent a car and make the drive all the way down there to make it happen. I don’t know what to say about that but wow. And maybe thank you.”
“You just have to promise me you’re going to try a margarita,” he said. “You’ll be amazed with how good the authentic ones are compared to the ones we have back in New York.”
“You don’t have to ask me twice,” I said with a laugh.
We got to the hotel, and once again, things were already in motion for us. Our rooms were right across from each other, which I found both convenient and tempting, but I didn’t say anything about it as I told Greyson goodnight and headed into my room.
I would get room service and take it easy that night, though I knew the real reason I was doing this was because of the fact I wasn’t able to get Greyson out of my head, and I was more than happy to dwell on him. I couldn’t even begin to describe the things I felt when I was around him, and I didn’t want that to come to an end.
The fact that he was going to go to that effort to take me to dinner tomorrow told me that he must be having some of these same feelings toward me that I was having toward him. Even if we didn’t talk about it, it really felt that he must be. But, I wasn’t going to bring it up. I didn’t want him to think I was one of those women who couldn’t make up my mind about things.
