“Sure did. She looked so sad, but she was so nice to me.”

“Where did you take her?” Brian growled, not caring that he was being rude.

“To her parent’s house,” he replied. “Over Nambour way.”

The car came to a stop in front of the airport terminal. Brian wanted to demand the man take him to Cassie right now, but he had a meeting with a representative from CASA in three hours and if he didn’t leave now, they would ground his fledgling airline. Millions of ...