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it and settled it on his leg.
Holy crap, what had they landed in the middle of? He absentmindedly rubbed his
thumb over the back of her hand while he thought about what the hell was going
on.
    He felt better
knowing Mozart and Abe were alert and ready. Thank God they were on this flight
with him. They had very little chance of breaking up whatever was going on
here, but at least with all three of them they at least had a slim one. He
was keyed up and ready to go, to do something , but they didn’t know who
the players were yet.
    Obviously two of
the flight attendants were in on whatever it was since Caroline had overheard
them talking about their plan, but who else? They had to sit and wait and see. He
hated that. Wolf thought about 9/11 and wondered if the people on the planes
that had been crashed into the World Trade Center had known something was
wrong. It was a helpless feeling. The passengers on the plane that had crashed that
day in Pennsylvania obviously did what they could to prevent the plane from
crashing into the White House, but unfortunately lost their lives in the
process.
    Wolf didn’t want
to die, but he knew he could at any time. He job wasn’t the safest. Ironically,
he was supposed to be on vacation and he was in just as much danger as he was
when he was on a mission. It was crazy.
    Wolf turned
toward Caroline.
    “You were
amazing,” whispered Wolf. “You pulled that off even though you were scared and
you didn’t bring attention back to yourself or me.”
    Caroline didn’t
respond with more than a quick smile. Wolf knew he wouldn’t have been able to
pull off what she did and not bring attention to himself. Hell, he wouldn’t
even know he was in the middle of a situation if it hadn’t been for her.
He hated she was going through this, and loathed even more the thought of her
not making it through whatever was going on.
    Wolf thought
more about the situation and was aware the plane had gone pretty quiet. Oh, it
hadn’t been loud to begin with, but it was obvious what little conversation
there had been, had dwindled off. He moved his head a fraction of an inch and
saw the three people in the seats across from him had their eyes closed and
were sleeping…or worse. He had no idea if they were unconscious, sleeping or even
dead.
    Just as he was
about to tell Caroline they had to lay low and see what was going to happen
next, she surprised him by beating him to it.
    “Matthew, we
have to pretend to have finished our drinks and that it affected us just like
everyone else.” She’d obviously noticed the other passengers’ stillness as
well.
    Wolf nodded. “I
was thinking the same thing. Great minds think alike.” He watched as she
blushed. She constantly amazed him. The women he’d known in his life didn’t blush
at a simple backhanded compliment. He thought it was a shame he didn’t have the
time at the moment to see what other compliments he could give her, just to
watch her face light up in the charming blush that was currently covering her
cheeks. He tamped down the thought of just how far down that blush went. Wrong
time, wrong place, but God he wanted to know.
    Caroline took
her hand out of his reluctantly, and laid her head back on the head rest. She
didn’t dare open her eyes to try to see what was going on. They had to pretend
to be just as unconscious as the other passengers. She knew Matthew had also tipped
his head back and closed his eyes. They just had to wait.
    Caroline hated
waiting. She was terrible at it. She always got antsy. Her mom always teased
her about not being able to sit still for even five minutes when she was
little. She was always on the go. Caroline smiled internally at the memory of a
story her mom loved to tell guests about when Caroline was about four years
old. They’d been at an amusement park and there were long lines for everything;
the food, the rides, and of course, the bathroom.
    Apparently
Caroline had had enough of waiting in the lines, and when