Another Man's Children by Christine Flynn

Author:Christine Flynn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2001-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

From the side window of his plane, Zach caught a glimpse of the ferry as he left the airstrip behind and banked west. He’d wanted to leave hours ago, but he’d had to wait for the low-lying fog to clear before he could take off. He was flying VFR today—Visual Flight Rules—since many of his primitive destinations didn’t have approach controllers and the sophisticated electronics that made instrument flying possible. Some of the places where he landed didn’t have much more than hard-packed earth for a runway, and barely enough length to set a plane on at that.

Below him, he could still see thready patches of the mist that had delayed him hovering over Harbor and the ocean, but he had a clear view of his first destination, a tiny dot of an island three islands due north. He was behind schedule, but he could make up the time with his deliveries of mail and provisions if those patches of fog didn’t merge into a gray blanket that would make it impossible to see to land. If Lauren was on her schedule, she would be picking Jason up right about now.

With a frown, his glance swung to his altimeter, and he began to level off. Thinking about Lauren wasn’t anything he wanted to do right now. Just the thought of her made him edgy and restless, and he was already feeling restless enough to pace out of his skin. What he should be considering was what he would do if Sam decided to leave. But neither the option of selling one of the planes or hiring another pilot made him feel any calmer. And thoughts of Lauren intruded anyway.

He hadn’t realized how badly he’d wanted to touch her until he’d found himself doing just that. The fact that she had so easily accepted the contact had only made it that much harder not to do it again.

From the corner of his eye, he glimpsed another small plane paralleling his course a half a mile away. Keeping an eye on the traffic, which could be considerable in a place where people relied on wings for transportation the way most people did wheels, he reminded himself that he was doing the right thing by checking up on her in the mornings. By not stopping at night, there was less chance of being alone with her, and more chance of keeping everything focused right where it should be. On her brother and the kids.

That was the conclusion he’d drawn after he’d left her last night. It was sensible. Practical. It was also the easiest way he could think of to keep his word to his friend.

He’d repeated that same logic to himself all the way home last evening. Even then, he’d very nearly gone back to see if she was all right. But with the kids in bed, and as tired as she’d looked, he’d known there hadn’t been a thing he could have done for her. He’d also known that what he’d really wanted was to pull her into his arms.

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