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answered.
                  Jake tried not to show his obvious disappointment. She was taken. Of course she was taken. She was beautiful, smart, sexy, and mechanically inclined. What was there not to love? He fell quiet for the rest of the short ride.
                  “I’ve got to make a couple of calls,so I will catch up with you in a little while,” he told her when he had parked.
    “Um, okay,” Abby said, sounding slightly miffed. She jumped out and headed to the main buildings. While Jake watched her walk away, he noticed that the sky looked heavy with snow clouds, and the snow was already beginning to fall.He sat back in the driver’s seat to think about this new revelation with Abby. Obviously, this Connor guy couldn’t mean too much to her, since she had only just mentioned him now. On the other hand, she seemed pretty happy to be living in the middle of nowhere in a little house with the guy.
                  Even though it wasn’t his style to go after a woman with a boyfriend, after weighing his options for several moments, Jake decided that he still wanted to pursue Abby. He found himself tempted to ask her the simplest questions, just so he could find out the answer, like How did she take her coffee? And What was her favorite color? No other woman had ever made him feel this way or want to know these little things. This whole experience was new and thrilling to him.
                  After all of his contemplation, he called Will to see if things were still going well with Scarlett, but the call went straight to voicemail.

Chapter Three
     
                  “Okay, those clouds look like they mean business,” Scarlett said as she pointed to the sky while they rode the lift up the mountain. She and Will had been on the slopes for hours now, but the weather had taken a sudden frigid turn from the sunny skies that had greeted them when they had first started skiing earlier.
                  “We probably need to head back,” she added, snuggling up to him for extra warmth.
    “I agree. It wouldn’t be any fun to get stuck up here in a snowstorm,” Will said. When the lift reached its destination, they exited and made it down the mountain as quickly as they could. By the time they reached the bottom of the mountain, snow was falling heavily and the wind was blowing it everywhere.
    “A cup of something hot sounds really good about now,” Will suggested through chattering teeth as they turned in the ski equipment they had rented.
    “I would kill for a cup of hot cocoa. My toes are numb!” she said in agreement, rubbing her hands together.
                  The lodge was fairly packed with guests who had the same idea and were eager to get out of the blustery weather and warm themselves. Scarlett and Will exchanged a look.
    “Maybe we should go ahead and make our way back to the cabin. This weather isn’t anything to play with, and we could be end up waiting a long time if we order something,” she told Will.
                  “You’re right. There is probably some hot chocolate or coffee in the cabin, anyway. The kitchen seemed pretty well stocked,” Will agreed. They gathered their things and took the short but uphill drive to Will and Jake’s rental cabin, just in the nick of time.
    “If we had waited any longer, we would have been stuck at the lodge for sure,” Scarlett told him matter-of-factly after they had hurried inside, shaking the snow from their clothes and hair.
                  Will put his arms around Scarlett and nuzzled her neck. “It’s a good thing we left then,” he murmured into her ear.
                  Scarlett thrilled at the suggestive tone in his voice. Grabbing his hand, she pulled him toward the bedroom. She had some really good ideas on how to spend the time being holed up in a cabin during a snowstorm with the man of her dreams. Maybe this blizzard was