Betrayed On Board, I Called Off Our Match
Language: en
My mother set me up on a blind date. My date was Victoria Hale, the young CEO of Hale Airlines. She was beautiful, wealthy, and booked on the same transatlantic flight as I was. To keep my work confidential, my employer had asked only that the airline hold seat 1A for me and add one ordinary note to the passenger manifest: DO NOT REASSIGN. I had barely sat down when Victoria's chief assistant slapped a check down in front of me. "We want this seat. Name your price." When I refused, he had the crew remove me from the plane and said with a smile, "The whole airline bears the Hale name. Who…