If Essence thought they would continue the conversation during or after dinner, she was wrong.
A series of text alerts on Vadim’s phone and he was on his laptop in seconds, and she was eating alone before watching a movie and then falling back to sleep.
The emotional draining of the last two days coupled with the impending return home to do what she truly did not want to do, exhausted her and when she woke next it was to a flight attendant telling her she needed to get up and get ready for the day as they were approaching London. Vadim was near the front of the aircraft in what appeared to be tense discussions with several people including the woman she knew was his PA.
Essence was buckled in at the rear of the plane for landing while the group at the front barely acknowledged her pres
