Chapter 132 7New Normal

• Three weeks later they were on the same long-haul.
• It wasn’t supposed to happen that way. Crew scheduling was random enough that Genevieve had stopped checking the roster for his name. Then the pairing appeared that day, Captain Hale in the left seat, her name listed in the cabin crew for the overnight flight to Zurich. She stared at the screen for a long time before she accepted the assignment.
• They barely looked at each other during the briefing. They kept it professional and correct. The way they were supposed to behave when other people could see. Only when she handed him the final paperwork at the aircraft door did his fingers brush hers and stay a second too long.