Christmas in Chamonix by Sasha Wagstaff

Author:Sasha Wagstaff
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788633208
Publisher: Canelo
Published: 2019-09-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Back at the hotel, drama was indeed taking place. Staff were milling around, agitated, in the reception area even though it was almost time for the dinner service.

‘What is going on?’ Luc asked Imogen as they came through the main doors, bringing a whirl of snowflakes and chilly air with them.

‘Seems you’re not the only one having accidents,’ Imogen said, giving Lily a wry smile. She was dressed in the hotel sweatshirt, ready for dinner service. ‘Pierre had a horrific fall today. Oddly, it was when he was teaching on a green run and he’s broken his leg in three places. He’s been taken to the local hospital for surgery. They’re saying he might never ski again.’

‘Merde.’ Luc looked upset. ‘That is terrible news.’

Imogen agreed. ‘He was demonstrating some parallel turns and his ski got caught on a lump of ice. His ski went one way and his leg went the other way.’

Luc winced.

Imogen continued. ‘Celine is at the hospital with Pierre and Marc has been put in charge.’ Her expression suggested that this was a terrible idea, but she refrained from further comment in front of Luc. ‘Elodie is around somewhere, but I’m not sure where.’

‘Thank you, Imogen.’ Luc gave her a brief nod. ‘I need to make calls. Lily, I will speak to you soon.’ He turned away, already dialling.

‘Will Pierre really never ski again?’ Lily felt awful for him. She might not have taken to skiing yet, but she couldn’t imagine loving something with the passion that Pierre did and it being taken away.

‘That’s what everyone is saying. It’s a really bad break. They’ve had to completely re-set his leg.’

‘Ouch. Poor Pierre. Makes my banged head seem rather silly now, doesn’t it?’

‘Nah. That was still bad.’ Imogen nudged Lily. ‘Where have you been all afternoon, you minx?’

‘Hypnotherapy,’ Lily explained. ‘I wasn’t going to go. It was all rather unexpected.’

‘How did it go? What happened? Did you eat a lemon thinking it was a chocolate muffin and pretend to hump a lamp you thought was the sexiest thing you’d ever seen?’

‘Shut up! No, nothing like that.’ Lily gave her a nudge back. ‘It was weird, but not in that way. I just can’t remember the middle part of it.’ She gave Imogen a quick rundown of her time with Bernadette, including all the stuff that had come up about her dad.

‘Sounds strange, but you never know. Maybe it will do the trick for you. How are you about the dad stuff?’ Imogen knew all about it, having nursed Lily through much of the fallout. There were many nights when they had stayed up until the early hours at Lily’s house, whispering about Lily’s dad and everything that was hurting her.

‘Not great. I was going to tell Luc about it, but he told me about his sister and I didn’t really want to go there.’

‘Luc has a sister?’

‘Not anymore, but I don’t think I should say more than that.’

‘Crikey. Fair enough. And where were you the rest of the day?’ Imogen demanded, pointedly checking her watch.

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