Rocky Mountain Revenge by Cindi Myers - Rocky Mountain Revenge

Author:Cindi Myers - Rocky Mountain Revenge [Myers, Cindi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ROMANCE - - SUSPENSE
ISBN: 9780373697427
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Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-01-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

The next morning Anne and Jake dressed in the ski clothes they’d also purchased at the thrift shop, and rode the gondola up the mountain to the ski resort, where they rented equipment and purchased lift tickets. “What now?” Anne asked, when she’d followed Jake up the stairs to the base of the first ski lift.

“Now we wait. We hang out here, watch people coming off the gondola and boarding the lift, see if you spot anyone familiar.”

She looked around at the skiers and snowboarders who stood in groups on the cobblestones of the ski village or queued up to board the lift. Dressed in helmets or knitted caps and brightly colored jackets and pants, they looked like circus performers, or aliens. “How am I going to recognize anyone when they’re dressed like this?” she asked.

“You’ll recognize your father or your brother.”

“Will I?” Maybe she’d been wrong about seeing Sammy yesterday. After all, she’d only glimpsed him for a second. Maybe her imagination had played tricks on her.

“You will.” Jake patted her shoulder. “Your subconscious will, even if your conscious self doubts.”

“Is that the kind of thing they teach you at the Bureau?”

“No. I read it in a book somewhere.”

“Don’t believe everything you read.”

She started to move toward the lift, but he stopped her. “We can see more hanging out down here than we can actually skiing.”

“I think we can see a lot from the lift.”

“No. This is where the action is.”

Reluctantly, she slotted her skis alongside his in a rack and found a chair outside the bar and restaurant at the base of the lift that transported skiers up the mountain. “If this is all we were going to do, we could have worn our street clothes,” she grumbled. “We could have told anyone who asked that we were waiting for our children to get out of ski school.”

“Really? How many children? Boy or girl? Or maybe one of each.”

She glared at him.

“If things had worked out differently we might have a child by now,” he mused. “Though he—or she—would be too young to learn to ski.”

Pain squeezed her heart as she thought of the baby she and Jake might have had. First, there would have been a huge society wedding, maybe at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Her father would have spared no expense for his only daughter. She’d have had a designer gown and a diamond tiara and a reception that people would have talked about for months afterward.

She and her new husband would have settled into a condo her father owned, and her husband would work in the family business, while she stayed home and raised children. On Sundays, they’d dine with her parents and her brother and his family, and there’d be no such thing as a holiday alone.

It was an old-fashioned lifestyle, one in which the women didn’t work or have any independence of their own, so the reality would have been much less comfortable than the fantasy, but it had been her

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