The Elicon by Rob Roth

Author:Rob Roth [Roth, Rob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shera Taylor Publishing
Published: 2020-04-04T22:00:00+00:00

EIGHT

“I’m freezing my ass off!” Dooley complained as he was rubbing his hands together.

“Here, mate, pull your chair over closer to the fire, next to me. I promise I won’t bite you,” Allison said to Dooley. “It feels quite warm over here.”

“Sure. Maybe we can warm up together,” Dooley teased.

Allison was a little confused as Dooley was pulling his chair over. She thought he was flirting with her, but she didn’t know if he meant it that way or not. Since Melbourne they had restored their friendship, and she thought that was all Dooley wanted, even if a part of her perhaps wished for a little more.

She had spent her career in the military proving a woman was just a capable as a man. Being a very attractive woman, at first she wasn’t taken seriously by the male soldiers and they flirted disrespectfully. After she outperformed them in most disciplines, she earned their respect. They assumed she was tough and hard, and treated her like another mate. She was out of practice opening herself up to romance and being treated like a woman.

Dooley treated her like an equal as did many of her military friends. But now he was also treating her more like a woman. She wasn’t sure how to handle that, but she sort of enjoyed it. She decided she better assume he meant nothing by it rather than make of fool of herself.

Ironically, as a young teen, Allie had been a sweet, open and innocent girl with plans to pursue fine arts. That all changed the night she went on a date with the star soccer player. From then on she vowed she would never be a victim again and learned self-defense. That led to a career in the military and a life hiding a wounded past slow to heal.

“This sure is quite a comfortable little home in spite of the weather,” Allison said. “But all the travel and cold has tired me out. Sorry mates if I end up falling asleep by the fire,” she said as she yawned.

They were sitting in a little wooden house owned by their guide, Aput Ila, whose name ironically meant ‘snow companion’. It was considered quite a nice little home for the small village of Qaanaaq, in northwestern Greenland. Aput had a brother in Copenhagen who was a friend of one of Allison’s cousins. Through this connection Allison was able to arrange for Aput to take them to the crater.

As they were all warming by the fire, Jace was thinking back over the various flights they had taken over the last few days to get here. They arrived in Qaanaaq via an Air Greenland flight that comes twice a week from the picturesque little harbor town of Ilulissat. Of course, to get to Ilulissat they had to fly Air Greenland from Kangerlussuaq, one of the main airports in Greenland, which they reached from Copenhagen. From Denver they flew to Heathrow in order to connect to Copenhagen. No wonder they were all tired.

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