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tossed her curly
brown hair over her shoulder and smiled. “ Well, I ’m sure you’ll find many people here you can
enjoy the slopes with. We ’ re usually packed this time of year .”
                “ I ’m
sure, ” he agreed, but he didn’t increase the distance.
                Seconds ticked by as they stared into each
other’s eyes, and the skin beneath Jade’s sweater grew uncomfortably warm.
After a few moments, he straightened up, and Jade sighed in both relief and
disappointment. But, his next words threw her off balance all over again.
                “ I’m also sure you’d make good company yourself.
And if you ’ re not too busy, I’d love to take you out on the
slopes tomorrow and teach you how to ski.”

Chapter Two
    Dawson
had never seen a woman look so taken aback after he’d asked her out. Usually
they smiled coyly up at him, gave him an annoyed look or simply brushed him
off—the last one was rare but it happened occasionally—but none of
them had ever looked completely floored as though they hadn’t expected the
question at all.
                The
silence stretched on for several seconds, and then something unexpected
happened. She giggled.
                His brows furrowed as her hand flew up to cover
her mouth, her eyes wide, but that didn’t stop the laughter. Her elegant
shoulders shook beneath her green sweater, and soon the sound of her merriment
filled the lobby.
                “ Alright .” He crossed his arms over his
chest, feeling decidedly annoyed, though he wasn’t sure whether or not it was
with himself or her. “ What exactly is so funny ?”
                She shook her head, still clearly trying to get
hold of herself. “I ’m sorry. I know I shouldn’t laugh. It’s just … my
grandparents own this lodge, and I ’ ve been skiing since I was ten years old. So,
the idea of you offering to teach me as if you were doing me some kind of favor … I ’m
sorry. I just thought it was funny .”
                “ Well .” He rubbed the back of his neck, feeling
decidedly embarrassed. He supposed he should have expected an employee of a ski
resort to know how to ski. She’d looked so soft and curvy, he’d assumed she was
an indoorsy type. “ You certainly know how to make a man feel good
about himself .”
                Jade cleared her throat delicately. “ Well, I
suppose I could pretend to be ignorant about skiing so that you can teach me
and feel good about yourself again .” Her pale green eyes sparkled with mirth.
                Dawson couldn’t help it— he grinned. “ That sounds more like it, ” he
said. “ Two o ’ clock tomorrow ?”
                 “ That should be fine .”          
                “ It ’s a
date, then .” Before she could change her mind, he plucked her
hand off the counter top and pressed his lips to it. Her skin was soft against
his mouth, and he smiled as he heard her indrawn breath and felt her pulse
rocket. “ See you tomorrow .”
                He felt her jade eyes on him all the way out the
door, and it took a mighty effort for him to resist the urge to turn around.
But, he knew if he did that he’d want to spend the rest of the day hanging
around the lobby with her, and he didn’t want to come off as a total creep.
                As he got into his truck and made his way over
to his assigned cabin, Dawson wondered what had drawn him to her so quickly. He
wasn’t usually attracted to thick, curvy girls, but something about her had
pulled him in hard and fast.
                There’s no denying she’s beautiful , he thought as he opened his cabin door. Her
exotic, Latin-American features were beguiling, and those thickly lashed,
sparkling green eyes of hers seem to hold another world in them...and that
figure. While not slender, it was killer. He was