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Eagle made his way over to us from one of the other chairs, grabbed Wes’s laptop, and closed it. “This trip was about relaxing, and we have another four hours to kill. I say we watch a movie or something.”

“That couch they’re sitting on has electric leg rests that lift, turning it into a bed,” Jaxson said as he appeared out of the cockpit. “Tried to text Ghost to grab us some water, but I see he’s otherwise preoccupied.”

“Yeah, that might be my fault,” I admitted. “I made her call François and ask for his help.”

Jaxson paused, then looked at us. “What kind of help?”

“Relax, we just needed someone to fly supplies from the other side of the world to New York so we had them in time for shit to go down,” Wes commented. “Ghost got all cavemen and needed to mark his territory to feel better.”

Jaxson glared at the back of the plane. “Fucker, had to get some private time with her after I cockblocked him this morning.”

Raising both hands, I shocked them. “No, no, NO… we are not talking about your intimate sex life with my best friend. That’s just not happening. We might know what’s going on back there, but I don’t want to hear about it from you.”

“Oh, knowing Ghost, you’ll hear about it all right,” Jaxson teased with a wink.

Water bottles came sailing through the air at Jaxson. “Take your goddamn water, and for the love of God, please stop talking,” Picasso ordered. “The rest of us have also had to deal with hard-ons all day after hearing their romp earlier.”

Jaxson simply smirked and saluted with the water bottle. “Enjoy your movie and don’t get cum on the couch. It’s really hard to get out.”

Making a quick exit as Void stood to go after him, I laughed as Wes looked down at the leather couch we were sitting on. “Oh, chill out. Let’s get this thing into something more comfortable, and I’ll even let you guys pick the movie. Alvaro, you joining us?” I called over to him.

“I’m gonna finish this, then yeah…” he paused, and his cheeks turned pink. “As long as you promise to keep all your clothes on.”

“Well, that certainly makes things more interesting, but I’m always up for a challenge,” Cognac said with a grin. Which got him a pillow in the face from Sprocket and a scolding look from Eagle. “Maybe not then.”

Chapter 26

Cognac

Dax was sitting wedged between Sprocket and me with Void between her legs, his head resting on her stomach. The others found space on the couch bed, but Alvaro sat in one of the captain chairs next to it and still had a good view of the television that swung down from the ceiling. We’d already watched a movie, and now we’re watching South Park and laughing our asses off.

Harper and Ghost rejoined us halfway through the movie, but Ghost had to switch with Magnus who she was curled up with on part of the couch. It seems the big man didn’t like hearing she’d talk to the Italian without him around. Glad to know I wasn’t the only one worried about outside people encroaching on my turf. Although talking with Dax had definitely helped. While I couldn’t control how others acted toward her, I knew she didn’t have any plans to change our situation.

The speakers overhead crackled to life. “This is your co-pilot speaking. We are in our final descent, so please put on any clothes that might have been removed, clean up your area, and return the cabin back to its original state. Thank you for flying Wright Brothers Airlines, it’s always the right choice to make.”

Picasso groaned at the pun. “Seriously, could that guy get any cheesier?”

“I find it absolutely endearing,” Harper announced.

“Good, because you’re the one who’s engaged to him,” Dax teased as she tried to shove Void off her lap. “Let’s go, big guy. We need to make this bed into a couch again.”

The man grumbled and flipped over to grab Dax and hoist her over his shoulder as he stood. “I might have to move, but that doesn’t mean I’m giving you up just yet.”

Her laugh as she smacked him on the ass made me smile, knowing what would come next.

“Hey,” Dax snapped after the sound of a solid slap to her ass filled the air. “What the hell?”

“Fair play, little demon. You smack my ass… I smack yours. Thought you would have figured that out by now,” Void teased.

Sprocket and I hit the buttons that would lower the leg rests, but it was moving as slow as molasses. When we got our own plane, we’d have to make sure it didn’t take the landing time to put back right if we got that feature. Cam had the right idea about getting our pilot’s licenses. It would be invaluable to us once this was all over since I had a feeling we’d need to fly out to New York more often than she realized.

Tommaso could be a good leader for the De León Empire as he started calling it, but he needed a mentor. Dax would be amazing at that once given time to come up with the idea on her own. All of that would have to wait until we could end things with Marco. Once that was settled, I felt our life could really begin with Dax. She’d been dropping not-so-subtle hints about getting a different house, and we’d all been talking about what that looked like for us. The hardest thing to figure out was where it should be since we had to split time between the Phantoms and the Empire. Wes and Eagle were working on that front while the rest of us were dealing with an architect to make up the plans with everything we needed and wanted. That list kept growing, but something like a hot tub could be worked into what we had already started.

All of us moved to the actual seats on the plane and buckled in for the landing. The sun was setting, but thankfully, we were still in the time of year where it didn’t get too dark super early. Glancing at my watch, it was around dinnertime like I figured it would be when we landed. What I didn’t see when I looked out the window was an airport. There was a runway, but it looked like we were on a military base of some kind. Pretty sure they didn’t just let anybody land in a place like this, but obviously, the triplets had worked this out ahead of time, so I settled in to see what surprises they had in store for us.

I had to hand it to Jaxson, he was a good pilot, and the landing was smooth-sailing. It didn’t take us long to taxi to wherever they wanted us to be, and the engine shut off shortly after.

“Alright, everybody. We are at a training facility run by the US Air Force. This isn’t an official base but more of a tactical training facility that has simulators. The base commander is what you’d call a family friend, so we got special clearance to be here for the night. As far as anyone is concerned, we’ve never been here, we know nothing, and they’ve never heard of us,” Jaxson informed everyone before he opened the plane’s main door.