Chapter 6
Three years ago…
Although Jean had to have known when she’d crashed in the giant slalom event and had torn her left ACL, there’d been no word from him in the long months of her recovery. Everyone else in the world, it seemed, even fans who didn’t know her personally, had sent flowers, cards, candy, or telephoned her. Vulnerable, in severe pain, and with her skiing livelihood and future threatened, she’d cried herself to sleep too many nights over Jean’s silence.
Still recovering, but in her dad’s home instead of her apartment, Skiing News was the lifeline to her sport. That was how she learned Jean had married Margo Watson, the very skier he’d said shouldn’t have made the World Cup team the year she had not. Angry at this betrayal, she tore out the article.
Unfortunately, her
