ts flickered,

restless, voices rising

? Why D

nd of em

tried to calm them,

rnal comms, probably talking to

on me, even fr

k

e past life too.

, his blame, it would

his decision, to play the worr

made my st

n erupted a few rows

ped, a ch

dy help!" a w

kicked in, overriding t

led my s

nt rushed toward

Alex emerge from the cockpit, hi

ooking at t

king strai

w, a growl. "Stay in you

malice, the same look he'd given

. He definite

me to crum

ssion carefully neutral,

my voice deliberately soft, a

ng. He was unchanged, s

how he' d play it this t

me, Evie. You know exactly what th

rst-class crisis, but not before

first class gr

t breath

a doctor

ant speaking frantica

, a

an K

n I tried to save

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were panicking now, the

o land imm

the capta

. The criti

priority, not Alex'

e captain, but h

ttany was a danger to

uld be my ally, i

c figure. His

ry-on bag beneath the

edies, the rapid sta

nventional, bu

. No more hiding. No