Chapter 30
“I love you.”
Jo was shocked to stillness at the whisper. The jet had just slammed on the power to roar down the Ketchikan airport runway and get her out of this place. She turned to Angelo praying she hadn’t really heard it. But he wasn’t facing out the window with a first time visitor’s curiosity, he was looking right at her.
She shook her head slowly once as the jet’s roar peaked and then the plane abruptly rotated its nose off the runway and pointed for the sky.
Angelo nodded.
“You can’t.”
His face pained. Obviously not the answer he wanted. Well she didn’t have that answer. He simply couldn’t.
He didn’t ease his grip on her hand.
“I can. And I do. And, before you go there, I’m not one of ‘those’ guys. You’re only the third woman I ever told that. The first two were
