Raiden (The Kent Brothers #2) - A.M. Hargrove Page 0,45
a great trip.” I cracked up. I opened it up, and it held my favorite muffins, some chocolate candies and lots of other treats for the trip. Aww, he was so sweet. I’d text him from the plane. The bodyguards were waiting and took my bag to the car while I made a cup of coffee.
When we got to the airport, two jets sat on the tarmac. One was WI’s, with their logo on it, and they chartered the other. Drex and Gem had hired extra men for this op, hence the two planes. Huff and Drex flew in the chartered one, with the extra men, while Gemini and I, along with the rest of the WI team, flew in the corporate jet.
As soon as I entered the plane, I smelled cinnamon. “Oh, my God. Are those—”
“Yep. I always make sure they have them aboard when I fly,” Gem answered. “I can’t go anywhere without the cinnamon muffins.”
I showed her the bag Raiden had left for me and explained. She got a merry laugh out of it. “I’m saving this muffin for later because I can’t pass up those cinnamon ones either.”
“Do you know how many hours this flight is?”
Gemini groaned. “Long. It’s close to four thousand miles and we’re going nonstop so I don’t know. My guess is maybe ten hours. We’ll watch some movies. Have some girl time. Do some yoga and shopping online.” She went on and on until I was cracking up.
“Have you put any sleep time in there for us?”
“Um, no. But we can do that too. Don’t forget, it’s already like one thirty there, so we’ll get there at night and we can go straight to bed. That’s why we like to leave early in the morning.”
“Makes sense. Question. Where’s my muffin?”
She patted my leg. “Patience. They come after takeoff.”
And as if the captain heard her, he came out and announced we’d be taking off soon. The flight attendants also went through the security talk, so we buckled in and were soon soaring through the sky.
Finally, my muffin was served with some delicious cappuccino. This was heaven. Then came the mimosas, along with my choice of eggs Benedict or an omelet. I chose the omelet. After we ate, I was sleepy and took a nap. When I woke up, Gemini was ordering shoes.
“Aren’t these adorable?”
After an enormous yawn, I said, “Yeah. I love those.”
She clicked and moved on to handbags.
When she finished spending a bundle of cash, we watched two movies. I had to get up several times because sitting for that long made me cuckoo. Then I took another nap.
After another meal, we were landing in Glasgow. I was a cranky pants. Flying wasn’t my favorite thing, even flying like this, though it was loads better than commercial. I shouldn’t complain, but I hated time zone differences. That was why we were going early. We all needed to acclimate to the new time zone before we did any work.
Once we deplaned, we taxied over to where our helicopters waited. They took us close to where we’d be staying. After we landed there, several white, nondescript vans waited for us. I chuckled to myself as they were a far cry from Drex’s usual fancy black SUV’s. We piled into the vans and off we went to our rentals. He’d rented two houses close to each other. We arrived at the one I was staying in, along with Gemini and Drex, and when we walked inside, I was pleasantly surprised.
Since we were out in the middle of nowhere, I didn’t expect much. But this house had everything one needed and was very cozy. It would be a nice few days before we cranked up the heat. And then, who knew what would happen. I prayed everything went well because getting caught committing a crime in a foreign country was not something I wanted on my record, not to mention doing prison time abroad.
Chapter Twenty-Three
Raiden
Not seeing Scottie was brutal. I knew it would be hard but never thought it would be this bad. She’d called when they’d landed in Glasgow, and then in Ireland. We had a laugh over the vans Drex had rented.
“I feel like we’re headed to church camp in these,” she said.
“Some kind of church camp, huh?”
A few jokes were being told in the background and it was hard to hear, so we ended the call. She said she’d call later when she got to the house.