She backed away, allowing Jake to roll backward onto the backpack he’d been leaning against, and looked around. Sex Now, Jake understood why Alicia had suddenly changed her mind and let him go. The tears ran down his cheeks, like they always did afterward. His most intense desire was that he would wake up and find that she would really be here. Please come back.”
It was Alicia’s voice, pleading for him to return to her. In a few minutes, the flyer squatted down in the hard, dry ground. Jake suddenly realized he wanted to know what Alicia was doing behind his back. ‘Alicia outside tracking area location #4.’
‘Recorded destination: Boston, Ma.’
‘Continue tracking?’
“No.” he said. Jake read the display and laughed. This set the autopilot to take him approximately fifty miles north of Bozeman to the town where he grew up and connected his vehicle and flight path into the nationwide flight grid. Now, Jake understood why Alicia had suddenly changed her mind and let him go. The console beeped again. It was also a real gas hog, being equipped with only a turbine and not the much more efficient turbo-ramjet stutter combination that was just beginning to become popular when he retired.
