The Greek's Ultimate Conquest by Kim Lawrence

Author:Kim Lawrence [Lawrence, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2017-12-31T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

THEIR PROGRESS THROUGH the private airport was swift. Once they were on the plane one of the male attendants drew Nik apart as Chloe and Eugenie were seated.

Their conversation in rapid Greek lasted a few moments.

‘I’m travelling up front,’ he said to Chloe as he moved past her.

‘Can I come too?’ Eugenie cried in the act of unclipping her belt.

‘You’re grounded, or I’m assuming you will be, so no...behaving badly doesn’t get rewarded, kiddo.’ He flicked her nose affectionately with his finger and walked on, vanishing through the cockpit door.

‘I’m going to get my pilot’s licence as soon as I’m old enough. Uncle Nik got his when he was seventeen.’

Did that mean he was flying the plane now? Chloe wondered, tensing a little as the plane started taxiing; she was fine with flying but the take-off and landing always tied her stomach in knots.

Once they were in the air, Chloe accepted the offer of tea but refused anything to eat. Eugenie, who seemed to have recovered from her brush with the law, tucked into some hot beef sandwiches.

She finished and sighed in pleasure. Chloe pointed to her chin and the teen wiped away the spot of relish there.

‘So how long does it take to get to Spetses airport?’

The girl looked surprised by the question. ‘Oh, there isn’t an airport on the island. We land at the small private airport just on the mainland opposite and then we’ll fly over on the helicopter.’

Questioning her decision not to simply hand Eugenie over to her uncle when she’d had the chance, Chloe took a sip of her tea. The return flight might not be as simple to organise as she had imagined.

* * *

On the helicopter trip over from the mainland Chloe sat next to Eugenie, who went into tour-guide mode the minute they took off. By the time they landed Chloe felt pretty well informed about the island of Spetses and its aristocratic heritage; she could have written a paper about the colourful mansions, the history of blockade running, its significance in the Napoleonic wars, and its long association with the master sailors.

While Chloe was being educated, Nik sat next to the pilot in the cockpit. The two men obviously knew one another pretty well and, with his sleeves rolled up and his dark hair tousled, Nik looked relaxed and very different from the man she remembered from that night in the bar.

Or for that matter from any time since.

It would be very easy, she mused, to let her defences down with this Nik. Just as well she was only here to chaperone Eugenie.

She turned her head at the sound of a phone ringing, struggling to make itself heard against the noise of the helicopter.

‘It’s Mum, for you,’ Eugenie said, holding her own phone out for Chloe.

Chloe pressed the phone close against her ear, raising her voice above the background noise. ‘Hello.’

‘How can I ever thank you, Chloe?’

‘No thanks required. I’m glad I could help.’

‘How is she?’

‘Fine.’ She gave the worried-looking teenager a thumbs-up signal.

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