About a month before Christmas…
About a month before Christmas…Every holiday party they spent together, Maya had a harder time resisting the fierce pull of her attraction to Rune. Unbelievably, she actually looked forward to all the holiday parties. At each one, they went a little further and got a little bit closer.
She loved every minute of it. Fake or not.
The first real snowfall—in which the snow accumulated more than two inches—came a week before Thanksgiving. As always, the combination of freeze-up and the first layer of snow led to an unfortunate number of car accidents. Maya was kept busy with those, along with the two-day search for a missing toddler who’d wandered into the snow and the rescue of a skier who got stuck in a Port-a-Potty.
She couldn’t wait to hear Rune’s recitat
