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As I approached Mr Cavendish again, he looked up intently froazes ain "Can I take your jacket, Mr Cavendish?" I asked hiet that cha it up, if you like"

He stood, having to step into the aisle to do so coasped I was mortified at my reaction to him I prided myself on my professionalism And my reaction to his close proximity was most definitely not professional

I was tall, nearly five foot ten barefoot, and easily six one now in my work shoes But the top of my head still only caht, maybe an inch taller I always felt a little aard around shorter ht, this extremely tall man, had the opposite effect He , but was extreed out of his finely tailored suit jacket, handing it to me He remained in a fine white dress shirt with a pale blue tie I saw that, although he was lean and elegant, he was also surprisingly ht of that hard play of o dry

"Just hang it, please, Bianca," he told me softly

"Yes, Sir," I nized

I finisheddown all of the carts in ain in front of Mr Cavendish for the safety deaze never leaving my face I didn’t understand his interest Never once had his gaze left my face I sensed that he was interested in me But in ay? I had no idea Usually when men hit on lued to raceless I even fumbled with the seat buckle in my nervousness I took my seat for takeoff with a sense of relief I needed a ather my composure But it wasn’t meant to be My jump seat faced Mr Cavendish almost perfectly I had totaxi and then takeoff

CHAPTER TWO

Mr Generous

Stephan clutchedof takeoff It represented good things for both of us New places New adventures Leaving bad things behind us I sent him a quick, affectionate sht, avoiding looking at Mr Cavendish for as long as I could

Finally, I stole a furtive glance at hie I saw in hilacial I followed his gaze to where my hand lay linked with Stephan’s on the small space between our juh ere a couple Stephan and I often appeared that way, even encouraged it at tiht ere an iteht make that assumption Even so, it couldn’t account for his suddenly hostile demeanor I barely knew the man

We quickly reached ten thousand feet At the double ding that indicated our altitude, I got up and quickly started preparing a hot towel service while Stephan ainsto help the main cabin?" he asked me "They have a full house"

I sent hilance "I’ll do it after the hot towels It’s my turn, remember?"

It was our usual routine to help out in back when the first class cabin was light and the main cabin was at capacity We certainly didn’t need two people to serve five passengers that were all probably about to pass out But he had helped in coach last time, so we both kneas my turn to help in back

He just kissed the top ofhis "I need to talk to Jake about that incident report froot the front cart, so we can chat while ork Good luck up here" And with that, he disappeared I sighed, exasperated For once, I actually wanted to work back there It would give me a little break fro to put up a fuss about it, so I would just have to deal

Mr Cavendish barely glanced at me now as I handed out hot towels, then collected them Why did that bother ht

I took drink orders, and served the first round of drinks quickly The couple on the last row of first class seemed to be heavy drinkers, but the others just had water and looked close to falling asleep I’d be surprised if most of them weren’t asleep before I’d even finishedcheese, crackers, and an olive basil dip It took me less than five minutes to serve the entire cabin Mr Cavendish took a small plate of cheese ater, and the couple in back took so before I was even back in the galley

As I collected the plates, I was surprised to find that even the couple who’d been drinking cocktails had fallen asleep I had read the They were the ‘drink a few and fall asleep couple’ I had thought for sure they were just getting started

Mr Cavendish was suddenly the only passenger awake in h ere alone The curtain was closed securely on hout the entire plane

He orking quietly on his laptop, looking alert and nowhere close to sleep Would he work straight through the night? I wondered I couldn’t i a nap He likely worked around the clock Our flight time was four hours and forty-three enthiht