Ginger Snapped by Shelley White

Author:Shelley White [White, Shelley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: camping; ranger; campfire; redhead ;uniform ;forest; hiking
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2021-08-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

“So, care to explain why dinner isn’t ready and you’re wearing a state park coat?” Simone smirked.

Chelsea lit the chimney to get the coals started while Tanya and Amy worked on the campfire. Her dutch oven meal plan flew out the window along with her prep time, but her black forest cake would still have time to cook and be ready by the time dinner was done. As for the roast she had planned, she readjusted her ingredients and cut up the meat to make a stew on the stovetop. She just wished it didn’t have to be a copycat of Simone’s dinner the night before. Oh well. Scissortails were as forgiving as they were flexible. She was just glad her ingredients were easily transferable. If she’d planned dutch oven pizza, they would have been eating late.

“It will make a good campfire story. I’ll share when we sit down to eat.”

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“The sexy ranger rescued you from flooded river?” Simone grinned at her like a Cheshire cat.

Chelsea sighed. “No. The ranger startled me and caused me to fall into a shallow puddle, then assisted me in getting out.”

“And assisted you in getting out of your clothes and into his shower, you mean,” Simone clarified, still grinning madly.

Chelsea blushed. “That’s not entirely accurate.”

Jennifer sat forward in her camp chair, gearing up into interrogation mode. “But you said he helped you out of your wet clothes.”

“Not all of them! Just the first couple of layers. I did the rest and got into the shower on my own. Alone.”

She narrowed her eyes at Chelsea. “Your hair is dry. You stayed in his warm cabin long enough for your hair to dry. And I don’t see any clothes hanging out to dry.”

“It’s too cold. They wouldn’t have dried anyway, but yes, he put my clothes in his washer.”

“I hope you wore underwear without holes today,” Simone quipped.

Crud. Had she? Chelsea racked her brain trying to remember which underwear she put on that morning. She was camping; she didn’t even bring any of her nice lingerie. “I think my purple high-cuts. No holes.”

Simone threw up her hands. “I can’t believe you even had to think about it. Jenn, I changed my mind. You have to move in with Chels and help her weed that kind of crap out.”

“Hey!” Chelsea said.

“She’s not wrong,” Amy added. “As a twenty-four-year-old single woman, you should always be prepared for a potential romantic encounter.”

“This is a girls’ weekend! No men.” Chelsea stood and stomped to the wash station to dunk her bowl.

“Except for the handsome ranger. One single man in the whole forest, and he lands in your purple hi-cut lap.” Tanya could be ruthless when making her point. “He is single, isn’t he?”

All eyes tuned to Chelsea.

“It didn’t exactly come up. I know he’s not getting married; it came up in conversation, sort of. But he could be dating someone. If he is, I feel bad for her. He’s transferring to another park. It would be a heck of a commute if he planned to continue dating someone from here.

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