After much discussion and arguing and jokes about the new investor being the only silent person connected to the lodge, the Rockwells said ‘yes’ to the offer.
Birdie said ‘yes’ to a visit—actually, she more or less shrieked it. Kai was completely confident that eventually she would want to move to Rocky Peak.
Since Nicole had already said ‘yes’ to everything—the lodge, Kai, the Rockwell family—he was happier than he’d imagined possible just a few months ago.
After all the “yesses” had been established, Kai drove Nicole down to the spot where she’d driven off the road. She examined the tire tracks she’d left, the trampled spot in the brush, the tall trees that she had somehow, incredibly, managed to miss.
“This isn’t close to where you and your mother crashed, is it?” she asked softly.
