Flight of Fancy by Cynthia Dane & Hildred Billings

Author:Cynthia Dane & Hildred Billings [Dane, Cynthia & Billings, Hildred]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barachou Press
Published: 2024-06-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Elle emerged from the Royal Asia lounge in LAX for her first trip back to Singapore in three weeks. As things settled on the business end of things, her trips were coming fewer and farther between – something she would have celebrated before she became involved with Arianna, a woman she flew down to see and no one else.

That was marginally easier on her than the constant trips over the Pacific Ocean. But now that she was going back for another round of meetings with the Singaporean side of the company? Very nice.

That’s what she thought as she waited for her boarding call at the gate. She shared a grateful smile with the ground crew who recognized her before heading down the jetway, where she was held up behind a woman dressed in nothing but Gucci. The wheel of her carryon was stuck in the gap between the plane and the jetway, and no one other than Arianna was tried with helping the First Class passenger get the wheel out and the woman to her seat.

Arianna shared a shy look with Elle, who had practiced the perfect poker face when her girlfriend was on duty. As she slowly approached her First Class seat by the window, she heard Arianna tell someone behind her, “It’s another beautiful day in LA.”

Elle couldn’t help but smirk. That was something she had told Arianna the day before when they lay curled in one another’s arms before parting ways. Elle had a board meeting there in LA the evening before and couldn’t spend the night with her girlfriend. Which was fine, because they would be spending plenty of time together in Singapore.

“My sister wants to meet you,” Arianna had said while her nose nuzzled against Elle’s shoulder. “She’s the only one I’ve told about us. It’s okay. She won’t tell our mom or anyone from work. But I had to tell someone. Holding in that I’ve been with you these past few months is too much to bear. I want to tell the whole world.”

Elle hid her blushing behind her tablet, which held an unlabeled graph detailing company revenue. She liked to think that Royal Asia bursting through their half-year goal was due to wonderful employees like Arianna – and Esther and, yes, Charmaine – but she knew better. It was due to factors beyond any one person’s control.

All that was in Elle’s control was her response to Arianna, who approached her with something her girlfriend had dropped in the aisle.

“Oh, thanks.” Elle accepted the receipt from a convenience store that tattled on her purchase of Pepsi Zero and cheese popcorn. Both were in her overnight bag currently tucked in its allotted place.

There was no time to say anything else. Arianna was immediately needed elsewhere, and Elle spotted something else she had dropped a couple of rows ahead. She knew there were about five minutes before more passengers flooded onto the plane.

“Well, well.” As much as Elle should have anticipated the voice only a few feet away, she was still surprised to see Riley standing just outside the cockpit.

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