“Okay, see you soon,” Cole says, hanging up the phone and turning around.
He gets in his seat and turns to face me.
“Your family. We need to call and let them know where you’ll be and I need to call Heat Haven. Do you have your phone?”
I point to my bag, and he rustles around, grabbing my phone and handing it to me. With shaky hands, I click on my Gran’s contact info. I take a deep breath and I’m not sure why; I put it on speaker.
“Shy, honey, did you land? I’ll leave the house now to come get you.”
“Gran,” I say her name with a heavy tongue.
Fuck, I’m starting to lose it. I glance up at Cole and he takes the phone.
“Ma’am, this is Captain Mackardy.”
“Oh my God. Is Shiloh alright? Did something happen on the plane?”
“No, ma’am. Shiloh…uh…well Shiloh went into heat during the flight. We landed safely. I have her here and I will be transporting her to Heat Haven.”
“Give the phone back to my granddaughter, please,” she says tersely, and I bite my lip as Cole holds the phone closer to me. “Shiloh, you’re going to give me a fucking heart attack. Are you alright? Do you feel safe with this man?”
“Yes, Gran,” I say in a pathetic voice.
Gran is a Beta, but with both me and her daughter being Omegas, she knows the drill.
“You’re taking a year off my life. Let me talk to the pilot again.”
Cole brings the phone back to himself.
“I’ll be contacting Heat Haven to make sure she’s there. I swear if you harm a single hair on her head, I know people.”
Cole smiles.
“Yes, ma’am, I’ll keep her safe.”
“Stop calling me ma’am and make sure my granddaughter is taken care of. Shiloh, call me immediately when you’re feeling better.”
I can’t speak, so Cole does it for me. “She’s nodding. I promise we’ll keep her safe.”
He hangs up the phone and drags a hand through his hair. He uses his own phone to call Heat Haven.
I’m pretty tuned out at this point; all I can focus on is his handsome face and the way his Adam’s apple bobs when he speaks.
Cole is a whole-ass-hot-Alpha-man and I need his knot again asap.
He must finish his conversation with whomever as he rests his head on the back of the captain’s chair and looks over at me with a big smile.
“Jonah and Mack will be here soon. Everything with Heat Haven is good to go. Just hold on a little longer for me, okay?”
Yeah, I can totally do that. Maybe…or possibly maybe not. He looks good in the black shirt he changed into. It might not be as hot as his ironed white shirt with a tie and stripes, but I’ll take him in both forms.
I lick my lips and we just stare at each other for a moment until his phone buzzes.
“This part is not going to be fun; I just need you to last five minutes, as soon as we get to the car you’ll be perfectly safe.”
I furrow my brow, and he stands, holding out his hand, which I take. He opens the cockpit. A cleaning lady’s eyes go wide as she can clearly smell what happened here and Cole leads me to the jet bridge.
An older man is standing there, oh God…
