After getting Max settled into the media room for his afternoon nap in front of the TV, Nicole escaped to her own room, which was in the dorm area set aside for seasonal workers. Since these days the lodge was operating with a skeleton staff, mostly comprised of locals, she’d scored her choice of rooms. She’d chosen a cozy room nestled under the steep slant of the peaked roof. Its round window looked out over the wilderness behind the lodge, where hiking and cross-county trails wound through spruce and birch forests. She absolutely loved her little room.
She ought to call Felicity and report in about Kai’s impending arrival. That was her mission here, after all. Instead, she called Birdie. Birdie was the reason she’d taken this job and right now she needed to hear her sister’s voice.
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