Pair Mickey and Vern? It made sense. It would also still buy her that distance. She and Mickey would be in the air together, but perhaps less on the ground.
He wasn’t smothering her like water dropped on a fire—Mickey wasn’t smothering her at all actually. She was the one who had chosen to crawl under the blanket with him last night, but she was having feelings for him that she didn’t have for men she was sleeping with. Maybe with a calculated distance, she could also gain more perspective.
And she was more comfortable with Jeannie than she had been five days ago.
“Okay.” After deciding there was nothing hard to swallow in his instructions, it was easy to digest and integrate them. She’d have to wait for the right moment aloft to make the switch.
Mark looked at her for a long moment, t
