When they got downstairs, Megan inwardly groaned that the same man was at the reception desk. She knew from his expression that he recognized them as well. As Pesh handed him the key card, Megan decided to make the most of the situation.
She rubbed Pesh’s arm. “Thanks again, Mr. Nadeen. Make sure to call me again next time you’re in Savannah. I love big spenders like you,” she purred.
While the man’s eyes bulged, Pesh stared at Megan like she had grown another head. His mouth opened and closed like a fish out of water, but no words of admonishment came out. When he finally, recovered, he tersely replied, “I’ll try to remember that, Miss McKenzie.”
Truly playing her part, Megan turned on her heels and started walking across the lobby. She didn’t get far before Pesh was at her side. After shoving the hotel bill into his suit pocket, he slid his arm around her waist, drawing her close against him. “You are in so much trouble,” he growled into her ear.
She giggled as they walked out of the hotel. “Mmm, are you going to punish me by taking me over your knee and spanking me?”
“I just might,” he replied.
Tilting her head, she eyed him in the street lights. “You can’t seriously expect me to believe that you of all people are into BDSM?”
“No, I’m not.”
She snorted. “Once again, that doesn’t surprise me.”
When he stopped walking right in the middle of the crowded street, she stared up at him in surprise. “A good spanking, some handcuffs, and a blindfold all have possibilities. As far as all that other stuff?” His thumb came up to trail slowly across her bottom lip. “If one truly knows how to f**k, you don’t need any accessories and embellishments.”
She licked her lips as a little shiver went down her spine. “And you certainly know what you’re doing. You just got me wet right here in the middle of the street.”
His jaw clenched as he took her by the arm. “Don’t say anything else like that. I need to get you home.”
“To your bed?” she asked.
“I wish. But you need to go home to your family.”
Megan didn’t argue with him because she knew he was right. She had a son to think about. Regardless of how tempting it was, she just couldn’t go on some pleasure binge when she was a mother. But there was a part of Megan that didn’t want the bubble to burst by leaving Pesh and going home to her regular life. She wanted nothing more than go back to his place. Sex with Pesh had been phenomenal. And despite being a little sore from underuse, she certainly felt ready for more. Sex, that was.
Pesh grabbed them a taxi, and they made the drive back to the airport. Even though they didn’t speak, Megan didn’t feel awkward around him after what they had done. He sat as close to her as he could with her hand clasped in his.
Once they got back to the plane, she felt exhaustion begin to set in. Leaning back against the headrest, she closed her eyes as Pesh went about getting them ready to take off. She only opened her eyes again when she felt them start racing down the runway. When they got into the air, she couldn’t help sitting on the edge of her seat and peering out the windows at the city lights. “It’s so beautiful in the dark.”
“Sometimes I think I favor flying at night.”
“You do?”
He nodded. “For some reason, it seems much more tranquil. There’s a vulnerability to it as well. In the day, everything is within your sight distance. But in the dark, you have to rely on your instruments and instincts.”
“I’d love to learn how to fly.”
“You would?”
She nodded. “I’ve always thought it would be something amazing to learn.”
“Then I’ll teach you.”
She turned to him in surprise. “Really?”
“Sure. Why not?”
With a shrug, she replied, “You’re a busy man, and I don’t know how fast a learner I would be.”
He smiled. “For you I would make time.”
As she stared at him across the small interior of the plane, she knew she was ready to make more time for him as well. Where it would lead them, she couldn’t wait to see.
Chapter Fifteen
As the cornflower-blue horizon spread out for miles and miles before her, Megan couldn’t help fighting the urge to pinch herself. She was actually up in Pesh’s plane during her first flight lesson. From the moment they had taken off, she had been overwhelmed by such a surreal feeling. It must’ve been something about being in control of the plane as it rocketed down the runway and then took off into the sky. Of course, she really wasn’t in total control of the plane. Pesh was able to take over at any moment from his spot in the co-pilot’s seat. That made her feel a little better considering she had so little flying experience, and the manual she had read at least twice didn’t prepare you for everything.
Now as they coasted along the city skyline, she kept both hands firmly gripping the steering wheel, or yoke as it was called in small plane terminology, as they passed through wispy strands of white clouds. When Pesh had first offered to give her flying lessons, Megan didn’t know if she should believe him or not. Looking back, she wasn’t sure why she ever doubted him considering he was always a man of his word. And now, just two weeks after their first date in Savannah, they were back up in the air flying around Atlanta on a Thursday afternoon.
It had been quite a week together of having dinner after work or them picking up something on the way to her house. Although, the first day back at work proved both difficult and awkward as they tried to appear as though nothing had changed. But the fact was everything had changed, and it wasn’t just because they had become physical. As much as Megan tried to fight her growing feelings for Pesh, it was virtually impossible. A man like him made it too hard for any woman not to fall in love with him, and as much as she didn’t want to acknowledge it, she could see herself falling for him.
Of course, he was also full of surprises. Like on Monday when he had asked her to see if there was an extra heart monitor in one of the empty patient rooms on the first floor. She had obediently gone to check. While she found the heart monitor, she also found him. The gentleman she had once known became somewhat of a sex fiend when he locked the door and disappeared with her behind the curtain. A mid-day sex session in an empty hospital bed made for quite an experience, especially when the brake on the bed released, and they literally banged into the walls.