Under the Stars and Stripes: Fourth of July Romance Collection (Under Him Book 11) by Jamie Knight

Author:Jamie Knight [Knight , Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-30T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Four - Theo

The choir of alarms went off almost at once. Last night I’d set every device I had available, from my phone to a clock radio, wanting to make sure that all of them would go off.

I’d put at least half the things intentionally on the other side of the room and set to go off within a few seconds of each other. The digital cacophony was at a standstill. I heaved out a breath, noticing, with some relief, I was no longer tired at all.

Then I set about the kitchen like it was a house on fire, in the most metaphorical sense, putting together a full English breakfast as I was once taught on a student trip to London. Once everything was rolling, Petra came in, still in her night shirt, rubbing her eyes.

“Morning, little one,” I said, tending to the sausages and bacon.

“Smells good.”

“Wait ‘til you see how it tastes,” I joshed.

“You can’t see a taste.”

“Nicely done, very quick.”

Making sure Petra was okay, I went to get a taxi, with plenty of time still to go before the flight. I’d missed a flight to England once because there had been a hold up at security, and I never wanted to go through that again. I couldn’t afford it for a start.

Fate must have decided it wasn’t a good idea for me to fly to America that day. I didn’t know the particular reason, but maybe it was just the divine deities being capricious dinks, as was wont to happen, at least according to the stories.

The cabbie spoke neither English or Dutch with much proficiency, and it took nearly twenty minutes to convince her I wanted to go to the airport. Once that was sorted out, the route we took would confuse any Amsterdam local, being the longest way possible from where we were to where we were going.

More than once I was tempted to jump out at a stop light and look for a ghost, certain I would make better time. If it hadn’t been for the luggage, which was more than even my wagon could carry, I was stuck where I was— taking the Cook’s Tour of my home city.

After leaving a generous tip, I ran to the terminal. It could have just been my imagination, but it very much seemed like nearly everyone in town had convened in the airport that day, in a special effort to prevent me from getting to my plane on time.

Marching through the grim procession, I finally got to the counter, the flames of hope turning to smoldering embers.

“Tickets,” prompted the agent, looking as rough as I felt.

I handed over the specially designed envelope with the company’s name on it. It was a high-end airline I never could have afforded on my own dime.

“Oh,” the agent said, startled.

“What’s wrong?”

“Nothing, oh, nothing at all. I’ll get this through right away.”

After getting my boarding pass within seconds, my cases pulled away by the conveyer belt and I found myself on the back of a courtesy vehicle, being driven to my gate at high speed.

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