By the time I managed to pull myself together, I freshened up in the restroom and headed straight for the airport. Alex hadn’t been exaggerating about cutting it close—the plane had already landed by the time I arrived.

That’s when I spotted him.

Tall, definitely over six feet, dressed in an unbuttoned black dress shirt under a matching vest, paired with tailored black slacks. He had that effortless celebrity aura, the kind that made people turn their ...