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Finally Danielle said, "I' time"

"Only a couple of weeks," he said without looking at her "I've been busy ca"

"I thought perhapsperhaps you didn't want to see me anymore

"Whatever gave you that idea?"

"The last tie"

"What about it?" he asked innocently "You weren't exactly cordial"

He tilted his head lightly, trying to recall Nothingit off to womanly touchiness "Sorry, I must have had a lot on my mind"

He set the plane on a wide sweeping bank and dropped in the autopilot Then he smiled "Come on, I'll make it up to you"

He took her hand and led her from the cockpit

The passenger cabin stretched twenty feet to the lavatory There were four seats and a sofa, a thick carpeted floor, a fully stocked wet bar and dining table He opened a door into a private sleeping compartment and bowed toward a queen-sized bed

"The perfect love nest," he said "Inti eyes"

The sunshine poured through the s and spread over the bedsheets Danielle sat up as Villon padded froer cabin and passed her a drink "Isn't there a law against this sort of thing?" she asked "Sex at five thousand feet?"

"No," she said between sips of a Bloody Mary "Letting an airplane fly around in circles for two hours without anybody in the cockpit"

"You going to turn me in?"

She stretched back seductively on the bed "I can see the headlines now:NEW PRESIDENT OF