"You were working? Are you insane? What the hell do you think I hired those assholes for?" He whipped out his cell phone. "I'm calling that Tony Harri...on and telling him I'm docking ten percent off of our agreed price!"I surprised myself by snatching the phone from his hand. Meek little wifey was nowhere to be found! "You'll do no such thing! Tony did me a favor! I had a wonderful time today!" I tore open my bag and showed him my new fashion statement. "I'm going back tomorrow and helping out. The free bus to the other airport was a perk of a pre-purchased ticket and they even guaranteed your luggage would be with you when you got wherever you were going. That was a laugh. I never checked anything anymore ever since they lost my trash in Hawaii and had the balls to tell me it never existed in the first place.I texted Phoebe and confirmed I would be pulling up her driveway before the sun was up in the morning. I kept it nice and clean just in case her shit-faced husband was monitoring. In the next call, we got connected. I saw a beautiful woman dressed in a vibrant pink salwar kurta smiling at me in a rather sexy way. I smiled back. I can’t explain how it felt but I felt connected.That evening while we were chatting casually about how our days passed by. She had something else in mind and asked if we could do a video call again. This time I was a little reluctant. I had broken my rule for her once already. So I just expressed what I was feeling to her.Me – “But we already. I helped them into their seats and seatbelts, gave them my brief safety speech, and by then we were almost at the end of the runway ready to takeoff. I didn’t respond to the questions about our destination, only promising that they’d like dinner.The flight to Midway Airport just south of downtown Chicago took a little over an hour-and-a-half. We blended into the arriving traffic that seemed to consist mostly of Southwest Airlines’ 737s, landed, and taxied to the general aviation side of the.