Cade:
The captain’s voice crackled over the speaker.“Ladies and gentlemen, we’re experiencing a snow front ahead. Please fasten your seatbelts as we begin our descent. We’ll be landing shortly.”
I felt Riley freeze beside me. Her fingers tightened on the armrest like the damn plane was going to fall out of the sky.
“Landing?” she asked, her voice higher than usual. “As in—emergency landing?”
I turned my head, studying the panic stamped across her face. She was trying to hold it in, but her chest rose and fell too fast, eyes darting like a cornered rabbit.
“Relax,” I said, steady, like I’d done this a thousand times. Which, technically, I had. “Happens all the time. Storm rolls in, we wait it out on the ground, head back up once it clears.”
Her knuckles were white. “Wait it out… where
