A Lion's Pride 04 A Tiger's Bride by Eve Langlais

Author:Eve Langlais
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2015-09-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

The look of horror on Teena’s face almost made Dmitri laugh. However, this wasn’t time to indulge in amusement. Later, over some true Russian vodka and in front of a roaring fire, they could laugh about the unlucky chain of events. Then make love.

Rawr.

First, though, survival.

Stepping through the busted door into the cockpit, Dmitri found himself stymied by the myriad dials, buttons, and flashing lights. Why couldn’t he spot one that said ‘press this to land the freaking plane’? All he wanted to do was fly the damned thing long enough to land it without crashing and bursting into a major ball of flames.

How complicated could it be?

He dropped into a seat and made the mistake of looking out the front window. The plane was well below cloud level and moving fast. They seemed to be heading at a downward angle, and it was a tossup whether they’d hit the ground or the mountain that grew bigger in his sight first.

Challenging odds. Perfect. It would make their escape all the more awesome in the retelling—with him cast in the role of hero, of course.

Face still pale, Teena popped her head into the cockpit and shouted to be heard over the plane and wind noise. “Do you know how to fly this thing?” she asked.

A male never admitted defeat. “More or less. I’ve watched numerous movies featuring planes.”

“Oh god, we’re going to die.”

“Have a little faith. I wouldn’t let my wife die a virgin. Now, I suggest you buckle in. This could get a little bumpy.”

With a grumbled, “Why can’t traveling ever be easy,” she dropped into the seat alongside him and clipped in as he studied the gibberish in front of him.

He couldn’t have said what all the damned things meant. Airspeed indicator seemed kind of self explanatory, torque a little less clear, and the dial labeled directional gyro sounded like something he had for lunch once.

“What are you going to do?” she asked, studying him as he studied the console.

“Since there is no time to read an instruction manual, and being a man, we don’t believe in following direction anyway, I believe I shall have to wing it.” He waited for her to laugh at his pun.

Too subtle? Or too soon? Okay, so perhaps now wasn’t the time for levity. The mountain seemed to be winning the race when it came to who-will-we-crash-into-first. Time to do something. Anything.

Out of the mess of dials, flashing lights, and buttons, he did recognize one thing—a steering wheel.

His male gene kicked in as he grasped the wheel and the theme for Top Gun hummed through his mind. He should note that, when he’d watched it, he rooted for the other side because it drove his sister crazy, especially since she had the biggest crush on Tom Cruise until she found out how old he was in real life.

Given the mountain loomed fast, he yanked hard on the wheel. The plane shuddered, and something metallic screamed as the plane tried to go vertical. Shit.

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