CHAPTER 13

She clutched to his palm as the jet started to taxi, despite the heat in his fingers causing a visceral reaction in her rebellious body.

You really dislike flying, do you? He questioned as he sent a worried gaze her way.

She gave a headshake. "We as human beings were never meant to be flung through the air with such careless abandon," the guy said, referring to flying as "some kind of evil magic spawned by Satan."

He laughed when his shocked lips fell open. A grin pulled at her lips as she watched him laugh so loudly at something she said. It wasn't simply a polite chuckle.

He corrected her by saying, "First of all, it's physics, not magic, and I believe the Wright brothers would take offense to being called the spawn of Satan."

She acquiesced, "Maybe, but I stand by the conviction that if we were meant to fly, we would've been born with wings."

Do you view all modes of transportation with the same amount of disdain, or simply air travel?

Just air travel, although I do h