Page 57 of Training Rain
She nodded, wishing for the first time that she had the ability to answer in the same way.
Of course she didn’t, but he smiled as if he heard her thoughts anyway. Maybe he had in the way he’d heard her the night in Yellowstone when she’d been in a panic. Her entire body rang with her love for this man, so perhaps he had heard her.
The contact had been only a second, but it was exactly what she needed to believe that everything would be all right.
The ground grew larger in the window, Joshua’s voice continued to give instruction and praise over the phone and Jess focused completely on the screens in front of him. The wheels touched down and the plane bounced once and twice before the landing gear finally gripped the tarmac and they rushed down the runway, slowing with every passing yard.
In front of her, a snow-covered field warned of the end of the runway. They could not have been more than a foot away when Jess finally managed to stop the plane. Rain let her breath out in one long gust and the ache in her lungs eased.
“Great job,” Joshua said from the phone speaker. “Stay right there, we’re coming to you.”
The click of a disconnecting cell phone was all the prompt Rain needed. She jumped out of the copilot’s seat and just as Jess was shutting down the engines, she grabbed him around the neck, covering his cheek with kisses.
“You are amazing. I can’t believe we’re not dead.”
A full, round laugh filled the small space. “And you seemed so confident in me a few minutes ago. Now I know that was all a ruse.”
“There was no sense in shaking your confidence.”
He turned his head and took her lips with his as his hand came around and gripped the back of her head and his tongue plunged inside her waiting mouth. The impact of the kiss shot directly to her womb and her pussy clenched with desire.
Breaking the kiss, he gave her nose a quick peck. “You’d better open the door and lower the stairs. I can see our friends from here and they’ll be here in a few seconds.”
She glanced out the window and confirmed that a vehicle was approaching. “Got it.”
Grabbing the two guns she’d procured from the storehouse of weapons onboard, she did as Jess had instructed. As soon as the steps were down, Joshua Lakeland, his brother Kane and Tessa were all at the bottom with their own weapons at the ready.
