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smiled at her, "Congratulations. I’m glad you found your other half. You deserve to be happy."
    “Thanks.” Heidi proceeded to tell him about their wedding plans, and he could see, how much she was in love with Romeo. A punch of jealousy hit him in his chest. Would he find his perfect match one day? The one woman he could love and cherish for eternity?
    After breakfast, Evan excused himself. He wanted to go find Charlene. As he left the restaurant, Heidi’s words echoed in his mind. You messed up big. You need to apologize even bigger.
    He ran through various scenarios, and finally came up with something he thought would work. When he reached the lobby of the resort, he scanned the place. But w here do I look for her?
    Seeing Tanner walking down another hallway, he hurried to catch up with him. He’ll know.
    “Hey, Tanner!”
    Tanner stopped and turned to wait for him to catch up, “Evan. What’s up?”
    “How do I find Charlene?”
    “Wow! You don’t waste any time do you?”
    “No. Now tell me where I can find her.” When Tanner raised an eyebrow at him, Evan shrugged his shoulders and rolled his eyes, “Please.”
    His friend grinned at him, “What’s it worth to you?’
    “Come on, man. Don’t be that way. Just tell me where I can find her?”
    Tanner laughed but he gave him the information he wanted.  Evan could hear his chuckle all the way back down the hallway, but he didn’t let it dissuade him from his purpose. He had a woman to find and an apology to make.

Chapter 7
     
    Charlene and Darcy reached the employee morning meeting just in time. After the usual weather updates, slope conditions, and their assignments for the day, their boss Carter informed them about a scheduled technical training later in the week.
    She whispered to Darcy, “Crap. I thought he’d forgotten about the technical training this year.”
    Darcy nodded, “Yes. Not one of my favorite things to do.”
    Carter glared at them, “Darcy, Charlene. Do you have anything to say?”
    Charlene felt herself blush, “No. Sir. I just mentioned that it’s good the World Cup event hosted in Eagle Mountain is over and we can return to business as usual.”
    She couldn’t tell if Carter bought her excuse or not. He probably knew how much she hated the technical training, even though she’d been careful not to show her aversion when her boss was around.
    He didn’t reply, but continued to pair up two of the instructors with one trainer. “... Charlene and Darcy, with Dustin Keller ....”
    Why me? Is this the bad luck week or what? As if the technical training itself wasn’t enough to get her worked up, she’d hit the jackpot. Dustin Keller was the one trainer everyone despised. He prided himself to rehearse each and every of the safety and other rules to the letter and after that awful theoretical part was done, he took the instructors out to the bunny slopes for boring hours of practicing the basics of skiing. His favorite sentence was, “If you don’t learn it on the flat, you can’t do it on the steep slope.”
    Charlene shivered when thinking back to another technical training a few years ago, where she had first met her friend Graham. They’d liked each other from the first moment and had been best friends for years. Now he was dead. And it was her fault!
    But the training wasn’t something she had a choice about, if she wanted to keep her instructor’s license. Suck it up and go through it! It’s only once a year. You can do that!
    After the meeting, she went to meet her new group of students.  Carter hat classified them as intermediate skier according to their self-assessment. But she always wanted to check out their level herself. She figured that taking them up to the red slopes, would give her plenty of time to assess their skills and help them with any deficiencies they might be dealing with. Then they could decide together what they’d work on during the week’s course.
    Up on the mountain, she tried hard to