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barely. “All right.” She lowered her hand and forced on a smile, but Ram just frowned and stared at her suspiciously. “You’re right. I’ve been a little…”
    â€œBitchy,” he supplied.
    â€œShort,” she corrected. “I was going to say short around you.”
    He rolled his eyes and waited for her to finish.
    â€œIt’s just that…you know a lot of this…merging stuff…I don’t like it.”
    â€œActually yes, you made that pretty clear. But it still doesn’t excuse…let’s compromise and call it rude, shall we? It doesn’t excuse you for being rude .” He glanced at his watch. “Now if you’ll excuse me. I have a ton of things to do before the pre-award party our company is throwing for our nominated clients.” He turned to climb back into the cab.
    â€œWait!” Sofia grabbed his arm again. “Are you really not going to give me a lift?”
    Ram continued to pretend that he didn’t feel the heat blazing up his arm when he shrugged off her touch.“Are you really not going to apologize for your rude behavior?”
    She dropped her hand again and pulled up straight, but the one thing she had trouble doing was getting her mouth to work.
    â€œSee you later.”
    â€œOK.” Her hand flew back to his arm. “I’m…I’m…” She started coughing.
    â€œYou have to be kidding me.”
    â€œOh God, I need some water.” She clutched her throat as if it needed massaging to get the words out of it.
    â€œYou need to stop wasting my time.” Irritation had finally crept into his voice. “I’m not going to stand for you talking and treating me like I’m something stuck on the bottom of your shoe. Whether you want to recognize it or not I’m a man that has worked and earned a certain level of respect. If you can’t deal with that then I suggest you march your butt out there on the runway and hitch out your thumb and see if you can catch a ride that way.”
    She blinked and then finally whispered. “I’m sorry.”
    Ram cupped a hand around his ear. “Come again?”
    Sofia sucked in a deep breath, closed her eyes and spoke louder. “I said I’m sorry.” After a long pause of silence, she peeled open her eyes. Ram looked as if he was still weighing whether to accept her apology or tell her just where she could stick her apology.
    â€œI mean it. I’m sorry,” she added.
    Ram nodded. “Fine. I’ll give you a lift on one condition.”
    She should have known. “What is it?”
    â€œThat you keep your mouth shut. I don’t want you to so much as utter a sound,” he said with a narrowed gaze that made it clear that he was being serious. “Think that you can handle that?”
    â€œYe—”
    â€œAh. Ah. Ah.” He waved a finger in front of her face. “When it comes to you, as far as I’m concerned, silence is golden.”
    Sofia clamped her mouth shut and then angrily nodded her head.
    â€œGood. Then you got yourself a deal.”

Chapter 5
    F orty minutes. Sofia just needed to keep her mouth shut for forty minutes. How hard could that be? Turns out, it was pretty hard. Given the fact that she had lost her parents in a plane crash, flying was never her favorite thing. But for the most part, she could deal with it because of all the travel that was needed for her job. But climbing into this plane, much smaller than anything she’d ever flown in, was another thing all together.
    â€œHow long did you say that you’ve been flying?” she asked, clutching her seatbelt.
    Ram cut her a look.
    â€œI mean…” She glanced around as they neared the runway. “You’re sure of what you’re doing, right?”
    â€œIt’s not too late for you to get out,” he said.
    Sofia opened her mouth but Ram signaled for her to zip it. Now look who is being