Megan Hart: An Erotic Collection Volume 1: This Is What I Want\Indecent Experiment\Everything Changes\Layover by Megan Hart

Author:Megan Hart
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Harlequin MIRA
Published: 2013-05-15T07:00:00+00:00

Layover

DELAYED.

DELAYED.

“Come on,” Julia Radman murmured as she scanned the hard-to-read rows of flights. “Don’t be—”

CANCELED.

Of course.

With a sigh, Julia shrugged the strap of her leather bag higher on her shoulder and looked at the line of people queuing in front of the customer-service desk. None of them looked any happier than she did. Julia glanced at her watch, then at the line, and finally outside the terminal windows to the late-afternoon sun shining as golden as honey. The weather in Texas might be hot and dry, but apparently the entire East Coast was being slammed by an ice storm. Newark, JFK, Philadelphia—nobody was getting in or out.

She might as well sit down. She wasn’t going anywhere, not for a while, and standing in line wasn’t going to make the time pass any faster. She settled into one of the curved plastic chairs close enough to the desk so she could see what was going on and pulled out her iPhone to let her fingers dance over the keys. She pulled up Hobby Airport’s Web site, but there wasn’t anything there she didn’t already know. They had a nice slideshow of planes landing and taking off, but after those three minutes of her life had gone by, she had nothing to do but check the weather. Fifteen minutes later the line hadn’t moved much at all, and the rest of the plastic seats had filled with disgruntled and grumbling passengers.

“You too, huh?”

The seat next to her had been empty for a few minutes, but now a heavyset man in a long overcoat had taken it. She’d already moved over as far as she could, and he huffed a little as, he squirmed into the space between Julia and the woman on his other side.

“Where you headed?” the man continued as though she’d answered.

“Philadelphia.”

“Newark,” he told her. “Got my wife waiting for me. Grandkids, too, prolly.”

“That’s nice,” Julia said. The only thing waiting for her would be a pile of mail, a cold apartment and a goldfish named Larry.

The man sighed heavily. “I only got a coupla more years before I can retire. Let someone else take over, ya know? I’m tired of all this traveling.”

“Especially when it’s like this.” Julia nodded sympathetically.

She loved traveling, actually. Business or pleasure, she spent hours planning her trips to take advantage of local sights. She wasn’t going to end up like her parents, who always talked about the vacations they wanted to take but who’d never gone farther than Niagara Falls—the American side! The weather was making this trip inconvenient, but she wasn’t going to swear off traveling because of it.

The line had inched forward, people peeling away from it with angry faces. The ticket clerks looked harried, tight-lipped smiles giving the minimum of polite, forced cheer. Julia didn’t envy them their jobs at the moment.

“You been up there yet?” The man jerked his double chin toward the desk.

“No. You?”

“Yeah. Don’t look good, ya know? They told me I could sit and wait or I could take a flight out tomorrow.

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