On Wings As Eagles by Stokes David

Author:Stokes,David [Stokes,David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2014-03-12T20:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18 – ‘What a fucking waste, I barely had time to learn their names’

Claire hid her concern well when she saw him for the first time that evening. She had expected the sling and the dressing above his eye but seeing him for the first time still came as a shock. She wanted to take him aside and wrap her arms around him but she knew Michael would have hated to be treated like that. Instead she hugged him and planted a kiss firmly on his lips, right in front of the others. She then proceeded to tell him off for being so careless. Jimmy and Watson joined in and soon Michael was laughing as once again they ganged up on him. He was glad to be back among them but he wasn’t a fool. He knew exactly what Claire was doing and he thanked his lucky stars she was so switched on.

He looked around the room at the pilots. For the first time he noticed how many new faces there were. He struggled to remember the names of at least four of them, a stark reminder that they had been losing men. He could feel the beginnings of the sadness he had felt the day before so he forced himself to think of other things. He allowed Claire to take up all his concentration and he unashamedly looked at her, taking in her curves, her hair, her lips. He thought of how she felt against him, her smell. That scent she wore when they went out together. She only seemed to wear it if she knew in advance that they would be on their own. It made Michael feel wanted, knowing that she held it back, just for him alone. She saw him watching her and looked at him with a raised eyebrow. He smiled and took her arm, moving them away from the others for just a few moments.

“Something in your eye young man?” she said archly.

Michael knew he had been rumbled so he confessed. “A man can look at his girl can’t he?” As he spoke he slid his good arm around her waste and pulled her towards him.

“Oh darling, are you sure it’s just a look you wanted?” She had lowered her voice, going all husky and vampish. By way of a reply he kissed her, stifling anything she might have been about to say. When they came up for air, she pushed him away laughing as she did so. “That’s enough for now you hothead, there are people around!”

Michael pretended to sulk at not getting what he wanted. In truth, kissing her had been more than he had hoped for anyway so he took her rebuff in good grace.

He asked her if she was free the following day. He told her he was grounded and that the C.O. had more or less ordered him to surrender to her charge. She told him she was free, and that she had the use of her father’s car.

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