Nate continued. “Yeah. It’s only about three and a half for us. The problem is all the stops and layovers doing it on the airlines. You have to go around your elbow to get to your ass. It’s one of the reasons companies like Banks Consulting uses a corporate jet. That time is money when their high-level executives are the ones stuck in airports.”
Teo glanced back at me before speaking to Nate. I noticed his cheeks flush again a little bit which only made my stomach feel funnier. “I don’t really want to go by myself. Can I stay and ride back with you?”
“Of course,” Brenda said, reaching over to pat his hand. “It’s your plane, after all. You’re the client. We just want to make sure you’re happy and comfortable.”
“Well, I have my computer, and I think the hotel has Wi-Fi…” He glanced at me again under his lashes, and I imagined lunging over the table and tackling him to the floor just so I could taste the lip he was currently biting on. “So if it’s not a bother…”
“Not at all,” I said in a gruff voice. “Happy to have you.”
He blew out a breath and smiled at me. I really needed that server to come take our order before my stomach turned completely inside out from hunger. “Okay, good. Thanks. That’s… thanks.”
After we placed our orders for a shocking amount of fried food and the hostess came over to refill Teo’s water for the tenth time since seating us, Brenda began making polite conversation with Teo by asking him where he was from and why he’d become a nurse. I could have kissed her for drawing out so much personal information from him.
He wasn’t as shy as I’d originally thought. He chatted happily with Nate and Brenda, telling them about growing up outside of Chicago where his dad worked as a plumber and his mom stayed home and cooked for half the neighborhood. He had one sister, same as me, but his was older.
“She nags me,” he said with a laugh. “But if it weren’t for her, I don’t think I would have made it through nursing school.”
“How so?” Brenda asked.
He shrugged and took a sip of his water before answering. “She’s an LPN. She wanted to become an RN, but then she got pregnant with my niece before she could finish more than the diploma program. So, since she didn’t get a bachelor’s degree, she decided to hound me to make up for it. I’m glad she did though. I love what I do.” His brows furrowed a little bit. “Well, I mean… I…” He looked up and seemed to remember he was sitting with three practical strangers. “I love taking care of people.”
Brenda patted his hand again and gave him a maternal smile. “I could tell. Mr. Banks was lucky to have you there last night. You were very calm under pressure.”
He blushed and looked down, fiddling with the fork in his place setting. “I hope he’s okay. If only I’d assessed him earlier. Maybe I could have—”
“Nonsense,” Brenda said. “I saw you take his vitals and check his glucose once we got into the air. If you’d done more than that, he probably would have griped at you.”
Teo’s lip curled up a little. “You’re right. He doesn’t like being babied.”
Brenda and Nate went on to share some stories of flying Mr. Banks over the past several years since they began working for the company. They had nothing but complimentary things to say about the older man, and Teo laughed and shared his own stories. By the time our food came, I felt like I’d gotten to know enough of him to confirm my first impression that he was a kind and sweet man.
The more I learned about him, the more I wanted to find out why he’d placed that ad several months before asking for the silent hookup. Why silent? And why did he need to resort to an anonymous hookup to get someone to treat him like he mattered?
It had also become clear that the reason he knew Mr. Banks so well was because Teo had been Chris Banks’s best friend since they were in elementary school. That bothered me more than it should have. It should have been none of my damned business. And even if Teo was somehow my business, what did it matter if he was close friends with rich businessman?
I forced Chris Banks out of my mind and focused on Brenda’s story about their son, who’d just gotten an impressive promotion in the Air Force. Before long, the meal was over, and Brenda and Nate were discussing meeting back up for lunch the following day.
Teo’s sweet, unsure glance at me before answering made me smile. Hopefully that meant he wanted to spend that time with me. “Yeah, uh, sure. That sounds fine. The lady at the front desk said there were a couple of pub-type places close enough to walk to.”
We said goodbye in the lobby before making our way to the room. Thankfully, Brenda and Nate’s room was down a different hallway, so they didn’t see Teo and I enter the same hotel room.
Once we were in the room, things turned awkward. Teo sat down at the foot of one of the freshly made beds and folded his hands in his lap.
“Um. Do you want to watch a movie, or…” He didn’t look at me while he spoke. He kept his eyes riveted on his hands.
“I’m actually still really tired,” I admitted. “Would you mind if I—” I gestured to the bed, and he hopped up like it was on fire.
“Oh! Oh, of course not. No. I’m sure you’re tired. You didn’t get much sleep last night.” He pinched his lips closed and shook his head. “I mean, obviously. But still, it makes sense you’d like to lie down. Here, lie down.” He held his hand out to display the bed behind him like a prize on a game show.
He was so fucking cute, I really couldn’t keep my hands off him. I stepped up toward him slowly so he’d have time to dart away if he didn’t want me in his personal space.
He stood still.
I grasped his face in both hands. His skin was warm and smooth. “Will you lie down with me?” I asked in a low voice.
He swallowed. “Um, yeah. If you want.”
I grinned at him. “Oh, I want.”
His face flushed pink. “That’s not what I meant.”
“Teo, tell me to stop,” I murmured before leaning in to brush my nose against his.
“Don’t want you to stop,” he whispered back before reaching up to pull me fully into a kiss. We kissed for a long time, slowly and teasing. When I finally began working the clothes off him, both of us were plenty hard. I wondered idly what kind of god of aviation I’d somehow tricked into bestowing me this job that had led me right back into the arms of the sexy NurseTee.
Once we were both naked, I moved us onto the bed, covering him with my body when I realized he was cold in the wintery hotel room. He continued to shiver so much under my touch, that I finally got up to adjust the thermostat in the room.
“What are you…? That’s not,” he began before starting to laugh. “Get over here, silly man. I’m shivering because you’re driving me crazy. Not because I’m cold.”
I shrugged and grinned and climbed back on top of him, continuing my exploration of every single inch of him with my nose and tongue. Just as I was about to take his cock into my mouth, the fucking phone interrupted us again. Only this time it wasn’t the room phone but Teo’s cell.
And my cockblocker was, of course, Chris Banks.