New Year's Wife by Linda Varner

Author:Linda Varner [Harlequin Enterprises]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459272699
Publisher: Harlequin

She looks nervous.

Standing by the Bonanza the next morning, Tyler watched as Julie approached him, a slight frown knitting her brow. When her gaze swept the plane from nose to tail, he remembered that she’d never seen it before. Judging from her worried expression, he guessed she’d probably not seen many others this size, either, and certainly not flown in one.

Tyler opened the door of the aircraft, stepped onto the wing, then lowered his body through the opening into the passenger seat.

“Slip off your heels and step right here,” he told Julie, pointing to a reinforced area on the top of the wing near the door of the red, white and blue aircraft. Soft-soled shoes were fine. The high heels she wore were not.

Julie slipped off her pumps and tried to do as requested, but couldn’t make the giant step until she handed Tyler her shoes and hiked up the straight skirt of her navy blue suit. Then, grasping the hand he extended to her and the handhold on the side of the plane, she stepped onto the wing. Tyler, who scooted over into the pilot’s seat, caught a glimpse of stockinged thigh and then lacy panties as she stepped aboard and sort of fell into the seat. Visibly flustered, she jerked down the skirt and slipped back into her shoes.

Since all her paraphernalia had been loaded into the luggage space earlier and they were now ready for take-off, Tyler demonstrated how Julie should scoot her seat up under the yolk. He next started the engine and reached across her to close the door.

Donning the radio headset that was his contact with the tower, Tyler began a preflight ritual that included taxiing down the runway, a run up to see that everything worked properly and then takeoff. He made a special effort to set Julie at ease during the one-hour flight that followed, beginning with a recitation of some positive safety statistics. He was rewarded by the obvious lessening of her tension. By the time they landed in Yakima, she actually laughed and talked, gesturing with hands that had once held the seat in a white-knuckled clutch.

After deboarding, Julie headed straight into the terminal to rent a car, leaving Tyler to unload her demonstration supplies outside. By the time he rolled her collapsible luggage cart, now loaded down, into the terminal, she was finished at the counter. Together they walked to the station wagon she had rented.

Stashing everything in back took several minutes, after which Tyler slipped behind the steering wheel and drove to the department store in one of the malls, a store he knew well since it was near his apartment. There, he once again unloaded her gear and rolled it inside the store.

“Thanks,” she told him after they made their presence known to the manager, then made their way to the part of the store that featured housewares.

Tyler reached for the folding table strapped to the luggage carrier. “So how long do these demonstrations last?” he asked as he set it up.

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