Page 87 of His to Seduce
“Jump!”
I barely felt the movement. I bent my knees, let go of the doorway, and the weight at my back propelled me forward.
David launched me out of the plane.
Screams shattered my ears, and it took me moments to realize they were my own.
The ground rushed up; browns and greens and black circles I knew were ponds seemed to move at lightning speed.
My arms flung out and my legs were straight behind us, bent like they were supposed to be.
“Hold on!” David shouted near my ear. “We need to pull the cord in five.”
He counted down, his voice ringing in my ear.
I prayed the chute would open and moved my hand to the handle on my chest straps.
“Ready?” he asked.
“Yes!” I hoped like hell I was.Please open. Please open. Please—
“Now!”
I tugged the cord, yanked it as hard as I could, and we were suddenly jerked to what felt like an immediate stop. “Holy crap!”
“It’s amazing!” David’s voice rang in my ears but I barely heard him. There was too much to see, too much tofeelas we floated at a slower pace. Everything around me was serene and completely quiet, and I finally managed to scan the horizon, to look below us to the ground that was climbing closer to us with every breath I took.
“Wow.” I breathed out the word on a sigh, expelling all the breath that had felt clamped inside of me. “This is incredible.”
It was. Absolutely. The ponds turned from black to blue. The browns turned green. The sky turned a brighter blue as the clouds disappeared and through it all, I couldn’t believe I was doing this.
Skydiving, hooked to a parachute and to the man who held not only my safety…but my heart.
