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certain air around men like that, calm under the worst of conditions, and he seemed to carry himself with all the certainty of a man who knew what he was doing even when the world was falling apart around him.
    But she still preferred Grant and Grim better.
    “She got an Arctic off my back, Lieutenant. She’s one of the good guys,” Grant said, obviously relieved when Kelis took over, correcting the axis and getting the plane flying straight again.
    “Well then, boys, looks like we have a guardian angel on our hands. Miss, if you wouldn’t mind, please get us down on solid ground at the nearest airport. I trust you know the drill?” Connor asked, and Kelis nodded.
    Her vision was still swimming a little, but she could muscle through it. Adrenaline was pounding in her veins now, drowning out the aftereffects of whatever shit had gotten into her system in the first place, and she could feel the deadly calm of a woman on a mission fall on her again. She’d always been good under pressure, and this time it seemed to come in more handy than usual.
    “Yes, sir,” she said lightly, garnering chuckles from the men.
    Connor nodded his head to Grim and Grant as he slipped out of the cockpit, and Grim came to stand behind Kelis. She felt his presence distinctly, as she did Grant’s, and her breath stuttered in her lungs slightly as she felt their eyes on her, watching her work.
    “A Marine, huh? Damn, and I thought we’d have a future together,” Grim teased, falling into the navigator’s chair.
    “What? Can’t handle a little United States Marine Corps excellence?” she shot back.
    “Oh, we can handle it fine. The question is, can you handle SEALs?”
    Of course they’re SEALs, she thought with a grin.
    That kind of ego was saved for the Marines and the SEALs and it always seemed like the SEALs had made off with the vast majority of it. She rolled her eyes slightly, opening up comms with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport. As much as she loved flirting with incredibly hot sailor-boys, she had a plane to land as soon as possible.
    But she would have been lying if she claimed to be less interested in them now than she had before the whole madness went down. There was something about a man who could handle himself as well as those two had, and it didn’t hurt that she and Grant had exchanged some pretty big favors with that madman back in the seats.
    “I think the SEALs aren’t quite ready for this Marine,” she said with a smirk.
    A little bit of false bravado never hurt anyone, right?
     

CHAPTER FOUR
    Grim
     
    Grim was enjoying himself a hell of a lot, that was no lie. Even a little bit drugged up and worse for wear, Kelis was a breath of fresh air and she got his motor running in more ways than one.
    He wasn’t particularly needed in the cockpit, but he stayed around for long swaths of time regardless, bantering back and forth with the surprise addition to the team, and exchanging looks with Grant that spoke of more shock than anything else. Whatever he’d expected from this mission, he certainly hadn’t thought he’d run into a woman quite like Kelis.
    In fact, the reason why she was on the airplane was becoming more and more curious to begin with.
    “So you’re telling me that you were boarding your flight and then all of a sudden, you were told that you got rerouted to a different plane altogether and it ended up being this one? And you hadn’t made any changes in your flight plan or anything?” Grim queried as Tex appeared at the door for the umpteenth time, hissing at him to get back in the cabin and help secure the scores of people wanting to either kill them or rip each other’s heads off.
    “He’ll be right there,” Grant said over his shoulder, playing the role of the second pilot though he was as much of a pilot as Grim was a belly dancer.
    “He better or I’m stuffing everyone we can’t tie up in here with you three lovebirds,” Tex grunted, slamming the door shut behind