Page 124 of Chasing You
“Wow,” I whisper. It feels absolutely insane to be up here, like nothing else even exists but the blue sky around us. It feels freeing.
“I get it now,” I say.
I can hear the smile in Miles’s voice as he says. “It’s pretty cool, huh?”
“Pretty fucking cool,” I laugh.
“You know what’s even cooler?” he asks, but before I can respond, he’s flipping the plane upside down.
I squeal as my heart drops, holding onto my headset so it doesn’t fall off my head. “Holy fucking shit!”
Miles just laughs through the radio. “When did you become such a potty mouth?”
“When my boyfriend flipped me upside down in a plane!” I yell as he rights us again, throwing my hand over my heart.
He just laughs again, and I swear I can feel my heart jolt beneath my palm. I swear in an emergency his laugh is the only thing I’d need to hear to kick my heart back into action. “To be fair, you’re the one who asked me if I could do it. I couldn’tnotshow you.”
I have a grin plastered on my face for the rest of the ride, thankfully, no more flips are involved before Miles eases us back down onto solid ground.
The propellers slow to a stop as Miles drives us up to the hangar before switching off the ignition. It’s then that I let out the biggest sigh of relief I think I’ve ever breathed.
I pull the headset off my head, trying to tame my hair as Miles lifts the canopy, removing his own headset.
A man appears with a ladder so we can get down. “How was that, guys?”
“Terrifying,” I laugh, as he holds out a hand helping me down the steps.
Miles follows behind me, thanking the man before he takes my hand and walks me down the runway. “Terrifying in a good way?”
I use my other hand to grip his firm bicep. “The best way.”
“Good.” He smiles.
“I can see why you couldn’t give this up.”
He stops, holding both of my hands in his. “This is nothing like what I was doing, and I would give that up for this a million times over.”
“Really?” I ask.
He smiles a small smile down at me. “No question about it, princess,” he says. “There’s nothing that I want more than to keep building this life with you.”
Words don’t feel like enough to express the way it feels to hear those words from his lips. So I just capture his mouth in a searing kiss, letting my lips speak for me as they open up, his tongue tangling with mine in a dance of unspoken words. Every place where our lips touch is a promise of what’s to come.
I close my eyes as he rests his forehead against mine, breathing him in, reminding myself that he’s here in front of me and that he’s not going anywhere.
“You know, I think all of these years of flying all around theworld, I was just searching for one thing, one feeling. I think I was chasing you, and I didn’t even know it.”
I feel my ears lift as a smile blooms across my face. “Well, you caught me.”
“I think you’re the one who caught me, princess. And I think it might just be the best thing that ever happened to me.”
