Forever with Him by stacy travis

Author:stacy travis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: stacy travis

Chapter Sixteen

Los Angeles

Chris

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The outdoor staircase on the tarmac rolled away as soon as I stepped onto the plane.

“Everything good, lovebird?” I heard the words before my eyes adjusted to the darker interior. Then I saw her, sitting cross-legged on the couch, blond hair tossed around her shoulders, her expression more smirk than smile. If anyone had walked onto that plane and seen her sitting there, reclined in a lazy, inviting position, they would have gotten the wrong idea for sure.

Nikki had wanted to walk me to the plane. The only thing that prevented it was her lack of a passport, since my flight would be leaving the US and required a special security check. It would not have been a good situation, all things considered.

Triss’s voice had the effect of a knife gutting me without doing me the courtesy of killing me first. The mere tenor of it was painful, and I steeled myself for another long flight in close proximity.

“Everything’s fine,” I answered, tight-lipped and disinterested in having a conversation with her.

Triss had jumped at the opportunity to share my last-minute ride to Los Angeles because she wanted to pick up the Maltipoo that she and her ex had been co-parenting. They’d decided she would keep the dog, though I suspected that the urgency in retrieving him had more to do with pissing off her soon-to-be ex than with necessity. But I couldn’t really say no—I’d already disrupted our shooting schedule, and she would have to work part of the weekend to make up for the lost day. If she was willing to do that, I couldn’t begrudge her one of the seats on the plane.

I thought better than to tell Nikki we’d flown together, especially once our conversation had grown tense, but not saying anything felt the same as a lie. Once again, I’d been asking her to trust me and be honest, and I couldn’t get there myself.

What the hell is wrong with me?

I felt like shit. And I was leaving yet again. And I was exhausted.

The dog—Marley, named after either Bob or Ziggy, but I didn’t bother to ask—slept in its Louis Vuitton carrier at Triss’s feet. I wondered if she’d given him a sedative. It would bother me to know she’d drugged an animal, and it was one time when I decided that not knowing was the better call.

I dropped into one of the white leather club chairs on the plane and cracked open a water bottle from the side console.

“Good. I’d hate to think we flew all this way and you didn’t resolve things.” She was smiling at me through layers of eyelashes I assumed were fake and twirling her hair around her finger. She sat cross-legged in yoga pants and a sleeveless tank.

I huffed a laugh at that. “Okay.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” she asked, blinking as if her eyes stung with tears.

Actors…

“I just said okay.”

“But you didn’t mean it.”

“How can a person not mean the word ‘okay’?”

“You said it like you think I’m being insincere.

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