“You mean my sister, say what you mean. She’s a vile bitch. I heard how she treated you when you accidently stumbled.”
Jackie cringes at the reminder, shaking her head.
“All I can say is that I’m more than relieved Mr. Sanders has chosen to spend his time with you over her.”
“Something we agree on,” I laugh.
She does her best to hold back her chuckle, her professional demeanor slipping as she shakes her head.
“Anything I can get you before we take off?”
“Not at all. Please, sit back and relax. I won’t be a bother, I promise.”
Jackie waves me off and rolls her eyes.
“Please, you’re one of the only clients I actually enjoy serving.”
“Don’t worry, I won’t tell Nico I’m your favorite,” I say with a smirk before moving to a recliner seat.
Jackie smiles and laughs as she heads to the cockpit, presumably letting them know we are ready to take off whenever. Pulling out my phone, I scroll for a minute when I see a funny meme. Out of instinct, I almost send it to the group chat before I pause. I haven’t spoken to Naomi since our call last weekend. It’s not like she’s going to reach out and honestly, why the fuck would I? She was horrible to me for absolutely no reason.
No, if she wants to apologize, she knows where I’ll be. It’s notlike I’m screwing her boyfriend. She doesn’t even have a sister. She has two brothers, that’s it. She’s trying to pretend that she understands my sister’s and my relationship, or her relationship with Nico or my relationship with Nico. She doesn’t know shit and when she realizes that she was being a massive cunt, I’m willing to listen to her beg for my forgiveness. Until then, fuck her.
We take off in no time and about an hour into the flight, I decide to take a nap. It’s been almost a week since I’ve seen Nico and if he’s aching to be with me the way I am, something tells me I’ll be getting zero rest tonight. Better get it while I can.
I wake to the feeling of lips on mine. They are gentle at first, patient. Then when my mind fully wraps itself around the idea, my eyes fly open and I smack the face away from me. My hand lands on the stubbled cheek with a sharp crack before a chuckle rumbles from his chest.
“Jesus, Cass. Good to know you can defend yourself,” Nico says as he cradles his reddening cheek. “I was beginning to worry with how pliable that kiss was.”
Wiping the sleep from my eyes, I blink a few times before I look around. We’ve landed, obviously, and I don’t see a crew member in sight. Glancing down at my phone I see it’s about thirty minutes past when we were supposed to arrive.
“Hi,” I say softly.
“Hi,” he grins as he looks down at me.
Nico stands to his full height, holding his arms out for me before I jump into them. He catches me easily, pinning me to him as he spins me around before my head pulls back to meet him. Nico kisses me for so long, you’d think he just got back from war, not a board meeting. I can already tell you after six days of being apart, I don’t know how the hell we are going to manage things from hereon out because any longer than six days and I think we will both tear our fucking hair out.
When we break apart, Nico looks at me like he hasn’t seen me in years before he shakes his head reverently and smiles.
“I have a surprise for you.”
“Hopefully a dirty one that involves you and me naked behind a locked door?” I ask as he pulls out a blindfold from his back pocket.
Nico smirks.
“The best kind there is.”
The drive takes longer than I remember. For a moment, I wonder if we’re going somewhere I haven’t been before. But when the car stops and Nico guides me up a set of stairs, I smell the Brownstone before I could even see it. The old worn wooden floors hold a scent uniquely their own, paired with whatever kind of scent his cleaning service uses to keep the place smelling amazing.
Slowly, Nico guides me up the stairs and though I can’t see, I know we are heading straight for the bedroom. Perfect.
When we step inside, he stops me, before slowly stripping me down piece by piece until I’m standing in front of him naked and blindfolded. Excitement is practically buzzing inside me as he lays me down onto the bed and takes my left arm, wrapping rope around my wrist before tying it to the headboard. He gives a similar treatment to my other wrist before he grabs my leg.
“Let’s see how flexible you can be, bunny,” he says before tying a knot around my ankle and pulling my leg up towards the headboard.
I feel a deep burn in the back of my leg but I do my best to breathe through it as Nico ties up my other leg. Sucking in a deep breath, I let out another shuttering one as he speaks.
“Fuck, Cass. You look so beautiful like this. So perfect.”
