White Christmas with Her Millionaire Doc by Becky Wicks

Author:Becky Wicks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-09-15T15:47:50+00:00

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Ophelia had seen it happen.

He hadn’t had the time to ask why, how or where this accident had occurred exactly, or why Abe hadn’t been watching Cody closer—not that he could ask Abe to watch him twenty-four seven, of course, but thankfully Ophelia had been there. A doctor, someone Cody knew and trusted. Still, he was failing his son, and failing Ophelia too, every second he wasn’t down there with them.

The snowmobile was working overtime, sliding on imperturbably, bumping over rocks he wouldn’t be risking if anyone else was with him. The wind was harsh, freezing slaps on his face around his mask, but his GPS and all five senses had always kept him safe. They’d guard him now, while Ophelia kept Cody safe.

Thank God for Ophelia, in so many ways, he thought to himself, making a right turn some five metres from the mountain ledge. He could just make out the hazard ropes, and the black and yellow flags that marked the start of the closed slope. Something deep in his belly rose hot as he edged closer.

It was the fastest way down. The only way now. The other slopes would be too dangerous with all the skiers being blinded by this snow. The weather could change in a heartbeat out here. It could clear up, or it could come at him harder, costing him more time.

The snow churned up when his engine revved in blunt refusal against some ice. Someone else would have seen that as a warning, he thought, someone else whose injured son wasn’t in pain at the bottom of that slope.

Jax made swift work of clearing the ropes aside, edging the snowmobile closer. He ran ahead on foot and checked the run was still as it used to be. A memory hit as he stood there, straining his eyes for the pathway, he and Juno closing the entrance with orange cones, so no one else could interrupt them. They’d had this side of the mountain all to themselves for years; it was host to some of the property’s best views, and some of the best sunsets too.

They’d had it to themselves on the day she’d died, which was why it had taken longer for help to arrive after she skidded into the tree and disappeared—he hadn’t told anyone where they were going, and he’d turned his radio off. The signal had always been bad out here, so far from the radio mast.

It had meant Cody had to watch her die. It had kept him away from here, all of it, the pain, the guilt, but being out here now reminded him that he and Juno had made some of their most beautiful memories out here too, in all kinds of weather.

How could he have forgotten that?

Jax drove the snowmobile down carefully, but as fast as he could around the path they should have been on, on that day...before they’d gone off-piste. He saw the boulders in the distance, the start of the danger zone.

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