Chapter Five
Lucas
I stood in the shower, leaning my hands against the tile and savoring the feel of the hot water beating down over me. Considering I’d been covered in sweat and dirt when I walked in here and hot as could be, I couldn’t believe how much I was enjoying the hot shower. I started it out cold, though, to knock the sticky heat off.
Today had been insanely busy. Just the way I liked it. It had started out with a call to an accident on a narrow mountain road. After that, I spun into the lodge and picked up a guided hike. I led a group of college kids on an eight-mile hike up and down the mountain today. One woman spent half the time flirting with me, and even though she was beautiful, I couldn’t have cared less.
I’d barely spared much more than a passing thought about women
