I didn' t need to look twice to know that Nicholas was seated across from me . Nicholas ! Dammit . He wore his familiar dark suit that had clung to his broad frame like a second skin . He was , however , missing a tie and left a few buttons opened , revealing a sliver of his chest . I had a good sense that he had done so on purpose . To distract me with the allure of . . him .
This man had tricked me !
That explained why Elliot never arrive himself to my apartment to fetch me himself like he said he would . It explained why ' Elliot ' did not show himself at all until we were no longer on the ground . Because Elliot was not here . I was on Nicholas ' private jet flying to Melbourne with him , just as he had wanted . It was his chauffer that had so convincingly retrieved me from my apar
