Page 106 of My Fiancé's Brother 2

He lifted me up on the seat. I felt inordinately proud of myself.

Later at thefish and chip stand, I looked at Jackson. “I can’t believe I did that.”

He started to laugh. “Neither can I.”

“What do you mean?”

He looked at me for a long moment and then said. “I wasn’t going to take you jumping.”

“What?”

“I was just teasing you. I had to drop off some papers.”

I stared at him dumbfounded. “So that wasn’t our fun day?”

“No. I was just messing with you. But then you were so damn trusting, and I thought what the hell.”

“Jackson!”

“I honestly can’t believe you did that.”

I shook my head, a huge smile on my face. “You're in so much trouble.”

“But you did it.”

“Yeah. I guess I did.”

We grinned at each other.

“It blows my mind that they just let people walk off the street and jump out of their planes.”

He shrugged. “You were a special deal. You got to miss the 8 hours of classes.”

“What?”

“Normally, jumpers have to go to jump school.”

“But why would they do that?”

“They know me.”

“I took Alien skydiving before he was even born.”

He looked amused.

I stared at him across the picnic table. “Do you consider yourself an adrenaline junkie?”

“No, not really.”

“Do you ever get scared?”

He took a sip of his beer. “Of what?”

I shrugged. “On the job. Does anything ever scare you?”

“We control our emotions.”

I tried again. “Maybe you control your fear, but do you ever feel it?”

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