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The entire board is ablaze with red lettering. All East Coast flights are canceled.
A soft laugh slips out of me before growing into a maniacal cackle. The universe is really fucking me up the ass without a drop of lube.
I want to get home, shower, and wipe away the less-pleasant memories from last night.
Besides, where am I going to go now? The hotel is hours away, I don’t know anyone in San Francisco, and Avery and Luca are probably already on the road to their pre-honeymoon cabin rental.
I pull my phone from my tote and check my email. A message from my airline sits there, detailing that the flights are grounded for the next two days due to stormy weather conditions. That would’ve been helpful to read before I left the hotel.
I look back up at the board as it flips to another screen.
San Francisco to Rio de Janeiro: Boarding
Chapter5
Nico
“Lily. Fucking. Rodin.”
“Nico.” She smiles, as though this were a regular Monday morning, and she isn’t in the process of boarding my flight to Brazil.
Not in a million years did I think Lily would take me up on traveling this summer.
Few people can surprise me, but here she is in a pair of loose black shorts and a baggy sweatshirt, blinking at me with a straight face.
She stands a few passengers away on the plane, her hair knotted in a messy bun. A spiral of black strands falls around her face.
“Did you not get enough of the kiss last night?” I avoid sounding eager.
She edges another step closer, and I slide through the seats to stand in the aisle in front of her.
Lily’s eyes land on mine. “I’m going to stop you right there. Nomentioningthe kiss, and nokissingever again.”
“Then why are you on this plane?”
“Believe me, Nico, I’m not so easily swayed by a nice kiss that I’d drop my entire life to chase after it.”
Nice?
Niceisn’t the word I’d use to define the chemistry we had last night.
Maybe phenomenal, exceptional, unforgettable.
“That’s one way to describe it.” I lug her carry-on into the overhead compartment above our seats. “What do you have in here? Bricks?”
“It takes a lot to keep my skin looking the way it does.” Lily motions to her face.
“Should I be doing something to my skin?”
“Most definitely.”
I tentatively touch the flesh of my cheek.Hmm.
We slide into our cramped seats, and Lily stuffs her behemoth tote bag underneath the middle seat in front of her.
“You have to promise we’re going on this trip as friends,” she says. “In the grand scheme of things, last night was a careless mistake. I mean, look at you, and look at me. We’re only human. But we’re alsojustfriends.”
The only things I want to be friends with right now are her lips, her skin, and the taste of her.
