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OVER THE ARABIAN SEA
Present day, eighteen months ago
“Don’t tell anyone,” Adam Carlton whispered as he glanced over his
shoulder to make sure no one was listening. “I’m not supposed to
take you down there.”
Lyla Dhawan knew his dramatic gesture was all for show. They
were alone in the airplane’s palatial rear lounge, with its mahogany
tables and Gucci-embossed sofas. Although the double-decker Airbus
A380 was gigantic and could carry more than eight hundred
passengers when fitted out as an airliner, this plane currently held
fewer than one hundred people. Most of them were in the luxurious
forward bars, enjoying the free-flowing champagne and snacking on
expensive caviar.
Lyla still didn’t know why she’d been one of the lucky few invited
onto Xavier Carlton’s private jet, but she jumped at a once-in-alifetime experience. Fending off advances from one of the
billionaire’s sons almost made her wish she’d reconsidered.
However, his offer was intriguing.
“You mean, we can go down and see the cargo hold?” she asked.
Carlton nodded, downed the rest of his hundred-year-old scotch,
and leaned in closer, practically purring, in his British accent, “Have
you ever seen a Bugatti Chiron?”
The reek of alcohol on his breath almost made Lyla gag. She
shook her head.
“Fastest car in the world,” Carlton said. “Worth three million
dollars even before I added the solid gold trim. I brought it from
London to see what it can do on the desert roads. Obviously, I can’t
take you for a drive, but you can sit in it. The leather is the softest
you’ll ever feel.”
She managed not to roll her eyes. Lyla couldn’t care less about
cars, and his constant bragging was getting on her nerves. But she
didn’t know when she would get another opportunity to tour the
cargo area of an A380. She was a pilot herself, logging more than six
hundred hours in twin-engine prop planes back in San Jose,
California, so going down to see the hold was like getting a backstage
pass to Disneyland. Her only hesitation was the thought of being
alone with this jerk.
“That’s quite a tempting offer,” Lyla said. “Maybe some of the
other guests would like to see it, too.”
Not that she couldn’t fend him off if he got handsy. He was short
and decidedly out of shape, while she was taller than he was and
could deadlift two hundred pounds thanks to regular CrossFit
classes. The bigger concern was that she would offend him and
torpedo any future contracts with his father’s company.
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