- Chapter 2
Harrison felt perfectly content to have spent the entire day naked in bed with Liz. He was happy she was safe and really needed to catch up on his sleep. Harrison had been awake the entire night before as he worried about Liz.
The next day Liz went with Harrison to the airport. He had decided it would be best to return home and Liz was alright with that. She had already missed a whole day of work because of Harrison and she had the realization that she would never be able to concentrate if he were there.
As they walked into the terminal Liz saw Sarah standing there waiting for them. She didn’t like Sarah and she wanted to ask Harrison to get rid of her, but Liz thought she might be overreacting.
“Oh my gosh, I’m so glad you are alright. We were so worried.” Sarah said as she gave Liz a big hug.
Liz didn’t know why she disliked this woman so much. She really had been very nice to her, but there was just something wrong with having a hot young blonde secretary and she didn’t like Harrison’s choice to keep her around at all.
“Yes, I lost my phone and had gotten sick. Thank you for your concern.” Liz tried her best not to sound like a jealous girlfriend.
Sarah handed Harrison a packed of his travel things and then quickly made her exit to the nearest Starbucks.
Liz and Harrison sat down and enjoyed some breakfast at a small shop near the security entrance to the boarding areas. They were both exhausted and much of the time they just sat their enjoying each other’s company without much talking.
“When do you think you will be home?” Harrison asked as he flipped through his phone and sent a few text messages.
“We will be done on Friday the tenth. So just a couple more weeks and I’ll be back home.”
“Perfect. I can’t wait to get our lives back to normal.”
“Me too,” Liz really wanted things to get back to the way they had been before she took this job in Australia.
Liz sat and drank her coffee as she looked at Harrison working. He was so handsome with his dark brown hair and blue eyes. At forty years old, Liz couldn’t believe how young he always looked. She really hoped that when she got to be forty she would look young. But at twenty-three years old, she had plenty of time to age gracefully.
“Mr. Wellington please come to the ticket counter.” A voice said over the intercom system.
Harrison jumped up from the table and made his way over to the ticket counter for the airline.
Liz sat there looking at Harrison’s unlocked phone. He had just left it sitting there in the middle of a text conversation he had been having.
She couldn’t resist. Liz reached over and pulled the phone closer to her. She kept it on the table and turned it around so she could read the conversation he was having. It was with Sarah and the last message read: “Liz HNC” and it was from Sarah to Harrison.
Liz stopped to think for a minute, and then realized what the message was saying. Sarah was saying that Liz had no clue. She quickly scrolled up to see what else the two of them had been talking about.
The previous message was from Harrison: “Do you think Liz knows something is up?”
Liz scrolled up more and more. There were just a bunch of messages from Harrison to Sarah telling her to pick something up at a certain location or send an invoice. Nothing else interesting at all except the last two messages.
Liz turned the phone around and pushed it back to where it was so she wouldn’t get caught by Harrison. Her mind reeled with what they were talking about. What did Liz have no clue about? What would she suspect was going on?
The only thing Liz could think of was they were trying to hide an affair. But the thing that was weird was that none of their text messages before that had anything to do with an affair. They weren’t even flirty at all. In fact, every single message in the long string were business related. So what did they mean by the last two messages?
Liz decided not to bring it up. She thought it would probably be best to leave things alone for right now. Especially considering she hadn’t talked to Ricardo about the night she found herself waking up in his bed.
When Harrison returned, Liz ignored the information she had just acquired. For now, she would just have to ignore the texts she had read until she had more information.
They finished eating their breakfast and Liz walked Harrison to the security area.
“I’m so proud of you for all the work you are doing here. You will surely be the best marketing woman at your company soon.” Harrison smiled and wrapped his arm around Liz.
Although he really hated that she had taken a job so far away from home, Harrison loved Liz because of her hard work and determination. He had fallen in love with her because of this and he certainly wasn’t going to make her feel bad for continuing to be determined.
“Thanks,” Liz said as she pulled him down toward her.
“Oh, I can kiss you today?” Harrison joked.
“Yep, freshly brushed teeth today,” Liz smiled and let her lips touch his.
Right in front of the security line Liz and Harrison continued to kiss. Liz let her lips linger on his until she heard the nearby security guard continuously clearing his throat.
“Well I guess I should let you go home,” she said.
“If you must. But let’s actually Skype this time. No matter how busy you are. I don’t care if you just set the phone up and I watch you work. I just want to see you.” Harrison said as he reached down and grabbed his bags.
“That’s a deal.”
Liz got on her tip toes and gave Harrison one last kiss as he made his way through the security area and down the hallway to his plane.
Liz turned to leave the airport and suddenly was able to focus on the one thing she needed to do right away. She needed to find Ricardo and talk to him about what happened between them the other night. Liz needed to know if they had slept together since she had woken up in his bed next to him.
The answer to that question would determine if Liz could stay committed to Harrison or if she would have to tell him the truth about what happened that night he was looking for her. If the truth was that Liz had sex with Ricardo she knew Harrison would not want to stay with her.