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"I need you, Rachel"

She grasped his free hand "What should I pack?"

Chapter Eighteen

Owen thought it was an epic adventure, Jason was on the phone even at thirty thousand feet, and Rachel scrambled to write press releases and stateht co in Jason’s personal jet Nathan acted as copilot

Three hours into their five-and-a-half-hour flight, Jason stepped away from his computer and to her side

Owen sat in a leather reclined seat, watching a Marvel action flick while continually looking out theandcomments about the landscape below

"This is not how I pictured you in this plane for the first tiled her neck "Well, get used to it"

Her heart kicked hard against her rib cage

Before she could say a word, he kissed her cheek and ?"

The two of them spoke over the movie, and Rachel looked around the cabin

This wasn’t just a jet It was a private jet of an owner of a massive company that flew jets It didn’t boast a few seats; there were a minimum of a dozen, and two bedrooized for the lack of an attendant, as if they needed one Rachel was fairly certain the only thing different from Jason Fairchild’s private plane and that of the president was the cabinet of people inside

How did I end up here, Em? the voice inside asked her friend, who couldn’t answer

Owen laughed at sorown lanced at her notes, reread what she’d written for Jason to say Do your job, she cautioned herself

She knew he’d asked her to co as his support, but he’d alsohi else to do, and with fatigue already biting at her head, she sat back and closed her eyes

Costa Rica was hot and wet The sun was still up as they shuffled through custo car Nathan and Owen took a separate car to the hotel so Jason and Rachel could go directly to the hospital

Jason’s first priority was the people on the plane

Jason had never ht over, he pulled up their employee files and directed his US based staff to expedite transportation for their families to travel to be with theo to a crash scene two other times Both were free of fatalities, both were issues with takeoff The airplanes in both situations sustained so to the early pictures Jason received in flight, that wasn’t the case with the Costa Rica crash

The hospital was like nothing they’d seen in the States Less than six stories tall, alls that appeared to be cru and unsuitable for occupancy on the outside, it had a surprising ay inside

It took a little tilish enough to get the information they needed

The staff allowed both Jason and Rachel into the large roo treated

Neither man was conscious

Both of them looked like they’d been run over with a truck Or fallen out of the sky, as it stood

One of the doctors came to the room when he heard there were visitors for the survivors

"How bad are they?" Jason asked after Dr Salvador introduced himself

"Mr Hyde should recover without coe to his intestines"

Jason looked at the other lund isin his brain and several broken bones We assuht There weren’t any abrasions along his pelvis like that which we found on Mr Hyde"

Jason shook his head "I haven’t been to the crash site, or received any inforency yet"