Page 104 of Away With You
(not hating that idea).
Can I please pass on a message to Nathan from you? A letter? Anything to get him to stop looking so sad all the time?
Seriously, you need to make up. You’re perfect together….
“Wow, why did she have to send so many messages? Why not write it all in one?” I ask, my mind spinning from all the words on my screen.
“That’s your response, boomer? Who cares how many messages she sent? Check out what she’s saying. She wants to help bring you and Nathan back together.”
My brow arches. “I know. I can read.”
Jade sighs like I’m dim-witted. “Yes, and did you read the part about a private plane?”
Ah. Now it’s all making sense.“You think I should ask if I can join her?”
She bounces up and down, like she’s the one about to go on the private plane. “Of course. It’s all right there. She wants to help. She offered to help. And she has a plane.”
I wring my fingers, anxiety at asking for this coursing through me. “She offered to pass over a letter. Not a seat on a very expensive flight.”
Jade purses her bright red lips. “So? All you need to do is ask. If she can’t make it happen, then we go back to the drawing board. But you have to do this, Katie. You have to make this call. You have to take the chance. You have to be brave.”
Her words vibrate through me, echoing the same ones Nathan said the day I sent him away. She’s right. Nathan was right. I need to do this. I need to stop being a coward and start living, start taking chances, even if the outcome is unknown, and the reality is big and scary.
Nathan, with my hair ties around his wrist, deserves for me to be brave.
“Okay, I’ll do it.”
Jade squeals and dances around the couch as I scroll through my contacts. Taking in a steadying breath, I press the ‘call’ button and wait.
“Hello? Katie?”
“Hey Rosie, I hate to do this. But I need a favour…”
CHAPTER 27
KATIE
“I’m so excited!”
Rosie bounces up and down in her seat for the one millionth time since we boarded this private plane heading for Melbourne. After answering my call and jumping at the chance to play a real-life matchmaker, she’s been like an Energiser bunny addicted to Red Bull. She not only offered me a seat on board the plane, but she sent a driver to pick me up and has spent the better part of the twenty-four-hour travelling time trying to strategise with me. It’s been equal parts annoying and endearing.
“You’re being annoying,” Theo grunts from his seat behind us.
Okay, perhaps not quite equal parts.
“No one asked you.” Rosie turns and glares at Nathan’s manager for a solid thirty seconds before turning back to me, her eyes glowing with excitement. “Ignore his energy. He can’t understand how romantic this is. His software hasn’t had that update yet.”
I bite down on a giggle, my gaze flashing between us. The tension between these two suggests Theo very much hasa romantic heart, and if I weren’t so distracted by my own relationship turmoil, I’d be shipping theirs. They totally have the enemies-to-lovers vibe.
“Thanks again for having me on this flight,” I say to Theo to smooth over the tension in the air.
His smile is brief but genuine. “I’m happy to help. Nathan has been a grumpy sod since you broke up with him, so this is a selfish gesture on my part.”
“Sounds about right,” Rosie grumbles. I elbow her with a meaningful stare. Theo has been extremely generous, allowing me to travel with them for free. We need to be grateful.
“Whatever,” she says with a final hard stare towards the seat behind us. “We’re almost there. What’s the plan?”
The flight details displayed on a TV screen at the front of the plane have us arriving at Melbourne Airport in forty-five minutes, and even though I’ve spent most of this flight plotting and planning, I’ve come up empty. All I know is I need to see Nathan and tell him how I feel. And we can go from there.
