Addicted (Tempting Book 4) by Alex Lucian

Author:Alex Lucian [Lucian, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Alex Lucian
Published: 2016-10-18T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

I wasn’t sure what flying coach was like, which sounded like an absurdly pompous thing to say, but the fact of the matter was that my very first flight was a transcontinental flight, with me seated in first class. The seat was roomier than what I’d expected, from my vast experience of flights gleaned from watching many movies growing up.

My ass sank right into the cushion while Elias stowed our carry-on bags in the overhead bins. A flight attendant stepped beside me. “Coffee?”

I didn’t think I could do coffee, not with how jittery I already was. “Vodka and tonic,” Elias said easily, handing her our jackets when she gestured her arms out to him. “And two bottles of scotch.”

The attendant’s eyes widened as Elias straightened, and I recognized her attraction to him immediately. “My pleasure,” she said before turning away and scuttling up the aisle like it was a race to get his requests.

“I don’t need vodka.”

“Well,” he began, folding himself into the seat beside me, the window seat, “you may not need it, but you’ll want it.” He tapped on the plastic covering the window. “Once we’re thirty-five thousand feet over the Atlantic, you will want to drink.” He gave the stewardess a grateful smile as she returned, handing him two cups with ice and the bottles of liquor. “I do, and I’ve flown hundreds of times.”

I took his proffered bottle of vodka and tonic water as he set a cup with ice on my tray.

“I’m not sure how much you’ll want of both,” he said, eyeing the bottles in my hands.

I poured all of the vodka in, the words thirty-five thousand feet echoing in my head, and topped the glass with tonic before sipping it as delicately as possible. People brushed past us as they spoke with a flight attendant or placed their things in the overhead bins. The plane had boarded with first class on the left and coach on the right, so it was surprisingly quiet for the number of people who had been waiting to board.

“Are you all right?” Elias asked, leaning in and placing a hand on my back from where I kept myself sitting straight up, inches from the backrest.

Nodding, I gave him a smile that was a sum of all the courage I could muster. I took a bigger sip this time, the warmth of the alcohol burning a path down my esophagus.

“I’d distract you the normal way, if I could, but I’m afraid the first class cabin would frown upon that.”

“Distract me how?”

He rubbed a hand over his chin, thinking. “I could shove us into the bathroom, do inappropriate things to you. But you’re a loud one.” He gave me a devilish grin, one that lifted one side of his mouth.

If it wasn’t illegal, I probably would’ve taken him up on the offer. Such were my nerves at the moment. “So sex is off the table.”

“No mile-high club for us,” he said. He made an exaggerated pouty face at me which earned him a smile.

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