Damaged Grump: An Enemies to Lovers Romance by Snow Nicole

Author:Snow, Nicole
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ice Lips Press
Published: 2022-01-19T00:00:00+00:00

* * *

I don’t sleep that night, or the night after.

I’d bet every share I own that Callie doesn’t, either. She looks dead on her feet when we board my jet for the flight home a day later.

She’s out cold before takeoff, tucked in a chair in a seating arrangement far from where she spent our last flight.

That’s okay.

If she wants to avoid me, that means I can’t hurt her or get her hopes up like the lumbering moose I am.

Annoyed and trying like hell not to be, I throw myself into rehashing new digital strategies with the team. That keeps me busy through the flight, buttoning my mind down on something besides agonizing about Callie’s heart.

Still. The moment I feel the shift in air pressure that means we’re landing soon, I can’t help looking over to watch her stir awake.

She blinks slowly, rubbing her eyes and the corners of her lips.

Today, they’re a shimmering peach shade that matches the sunset hue of her eyeshadow and the tropical-pink capris paired with a sunny-yellow tank.

Her gaze drifts to me.

Our eyes fuse in a quiet challenge.

Then hers slide away like she didn’t even see me, like she was looking right through me.

As many times as I’ve done that myself, it’s only fair.

I can’t help continuing to watch her, though, as she fiddles with her phone. She only glances up at the indicator lights overhead, then out the window, clearly waiting until it’s safe to turn it on.

Two seconds after we hit the runway with a thump, she’s tapping at her screen—only to go pale, her eyes wide, flicking back and forth over the device in a panicked jitter.

I don’t think.

I just move, tearing my seat belt apart and crossing the cabin.

“Callie? What’s wrong?”

“I-I don’t—I can’t—” She shakes her head, dropping her phone in her bag and snapping off her seat belt as she stands. She barely remembers to snatch her carry on before hurrying to the luggage area in the back. “I have to go!”

“Not yet, the plane’s still moving,” I growl after her, worry building in my throat.

But she’s not listening.

She’s digging around in the luggage rack, dragging her bags from the safety straps. I watch her with a sigh, well aware that my entire staff is staring at both of us in bewildered fascination.

I’m not worried about them right now.

Fuck it.

I leave Callie wrestling with her luggage and stride up to the cockpit. When I rap my knuckles sharply on the door and say, “It’s Osprey,” the lock unlatches.

The door opens a crack—just enough to see the pilot focused on taxiing us safely down the runway, his copilot leaning back in his seat and watching curiously.

“Radio control,” I say. “We need the ramp out the instant this plane stops moving. No delays.”

The copilot frowns. “What’s going on, sir?”

“One of our passengers has an emergency,” I say and leave it at that.

I don’t even know what’s wrong or if it warrants what’s probably a breach of FAA aviation protocols. Here I go, charging to the rescue, anyway.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.