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“Short of him buying me another one, there isn’t much he can do,” I said. “But that’s no reason to let the sandwiches go to waste. I’m starving.”
“Me too,” Laurel said with a bright smile.
I was surprised with how cheerful she was in spite of the news we’d gotten, and I couldn’t help but feel good about it. Perhaps she had taken it to heart when I told her there was a reason why she was the one who had been chosen for this job, and she wasn’t going to let this setback get to her.
I didn’t know what was going on in her head, but I was happy for her attitude about it.
This was yet another reason I knew I was falling in love with her.
Laurel wasn’t like other women, not by any means.
She didn’t freak out about the small things, and I appreciated that about her. I appreciated pretty much everything about her.
I was falling for this woman, and hard.
And I was okay with that.
TWENTY-FOUR
Laurel
I surprisedmyself with how well I took the news of being stuck in LA for another day.
The fact that the plane was grounded meant we had no way of flying, but somehow, I didn’t freak out about it. I didn’t even want to run to my phone to tell my boss the news. I knew he wasn’t going to be thrilled when he found out, but I also knew there truly wasn’t a thing I could do about this, and with that in mind, I just went with the flow.
But, I also knew that we had checked out of the hotel already, and unless we both wanted to check into another one, we were stuck for the day – and night.
And my mind was already on other things.
We walked into the cabin of the plane and each took a seat. The cockpit door was open, but Greyson pulled the exterior door closed, so we were entirely shut inside.
“That’ll give us a level of privacy in case someone comes by. I don’t exactly want to deal with proving I’m the owner of the plane right now, especially since I can’t get the damn thing to start.
We ate our sandwiches together, and I listened to what Greyson had to say about the plane and the fact that we had to get another part before we could fly. He told me about how he had managed to fly before with uncertain parts, but he wasn’t going to put me through that.
“There’s no way in hell I’m going to risk a thing with you on board,” he said. “I wasn’t even sure I wanted to tell you that we had a part that was broken before we had the chance to get it fixed.”
“Why?” I asked with a laugh. “Do you think I’m a chicken?”
“I think anyone who doesn’t fly is reasonably afraid of what they don’t know about planes,” he told me, and I nodded.
“That’s fair, but at the same time, I don’t want to get all wrapped up in anxiety over this, either. I know you are one of the best pilots out there, and if you say the plane is safe to fly, I believe you. If you want to wait and have it fixed before we fly, that’s okay, too.”
“Great,” he told me. “I really wish I had more passengers like you. It would make my life a lot easier. God knows I have dealt with quite a few overbearing customers in the past who wanted to take control over something they had no idea what.”
I laughed again and agreed. “I run into the same thing with my clients. It’s not necessarily as dangerous, but I do run into people who get these wild ideas in mind and they try to run with it, only to find out that they can’t. There’s like nothing they can do that’s going to make their ideas work with what they’re trying to use.”
“Exactly,” he said.
I was glad we were able to talk so easily with each other, but my mind refused to stay out of the gutter, and it wasn’t long before I was once again thinking about other things. I didn’t know how to bring it up exactly, mostly because I wasn’t sure I wanted to know the answer.
It was obvious Greyson had had sex with other women. I knew that the first time I slept with him. But, that didn’t mean I wanted to think about him having sex with others. I enjoyed the time he and I had together, and I wanted that to continue. I didn’t want to think about him with anyone else.
But, that didn’t change the fact that I did have a burning question on my mind, and there was no way I was going to be able to get it out until I had the answer.
Finally, I decided the best thing to do here was to ask him directly. If I didn’t like the answer, then I would deal with it, but that didn’t mean it would be wasted. Even if I had to hear things I didn’t always want to know, that didn’t change the fact that I was happy I was the one he was sleeping with right now.
And I hoped he would be the only one I would ever sleep with in my entire life.
