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me.”
    He looked surprised but nodded. “I think they will.”
    Flustered, Annie fussed with the button. The rental shop was
going to need to stitch it when CJ returned the tux. Maybe she’d overstepped
there. She hadn’t even committed to staying past the wedding and she was
wanting to meet his friends? Slow down girl. How could this be so easy and so
hard at the same time? It had been four days. Why did it feel like so much
longer and why was her traitorous heart thinking about forever?
    The wedding planner hurried past, giving them both a
disapproving frown. Annie flipped her off under the lapels of CJ’s jacket.
    “I’m so glad I’m never getting married,” she muttered. 
    “What?”
    Annie jumped at the sharpness of CJ’s voice. She hadn’t even
meant for anyone to hear that. Blushing a little, she looked around.  
    “Sorry. It’s just after this weekend I think I’ve had my fill
of the wedding experience.”
    “I guess I can see that.”
    “And that bitch was a big part of the problem.”  
    “Amen. If I’d been the groom, the wedding planner’s body
wouldn’t have been found until spring,” CJ grumbled.
    “Do you have wolves? Maybe we’d get lucky.”
    “We get a few, but they don’t usually last long. They go after
the sheep and ranchers or the DNR take them out.”
    “Bears?”
    “Black bears. Some of the males can get territorial.”
    “There’s our plan. Pitch the bitch out in the snow and pray for
over protective bears.”
    CJ chuckled and shook his head, but he didn’t look opposed to
the idea.
    “Look at her. She’s checking her tablet again. I swear if she
heads toward Crys with a weather update, I’m taking her out.”
    “I heard her say everyone is getting to the airport tomorrow if
she has to shovel a path. Think we could suggest she get started now?”
    Annie looked back at the softly falling snow.
    “Do you think they’re going to make it?”
    He nodded. “I think so. I talked to my buddy that works for the
county and he said as long as the weather holds, they’ll have the roads out of
here passable.”
    “Did you bribe him to get us out of here?”
    “Not all of you.”
    Annie hid a shy smile at the not so subtle hint. He had no idea
how much she wanted to stay. She hadn’t said anything to her family, but she
had no intention of being on a plane with any of them. Not only was that
thought repugnant right now, but she really did want to see where things could
go with CJ. It might not be the easiest on the bank account, but it was the
only shot she had. She couldn’t see trying to make a relationship work from
thirteen hundred miles away on what little time they’d had.
    “About that,” she said softly.    

 
    Digging through the battered backpack she used as a carry-on,
Annie finally located her wallet in the bottom. Of course. She squeezed the
leather clutch. Her body was practically vibrating with excitement and no small
part nerves. The lodge crew had done an amazing job of clearing the snow out to
the main road, and the county had done their part. So, after breakfast, they’d
loaded up an eighteen-passenger van, two Suburbans, and after tucking the last guest
and bit of luggage away in CJ’s jeep, the crazy train had headed for the
airport. All joking aside, Annie thought the mass exodus was met with some
sense of relief by the Barrett’s and their staff.
    On the other hand, her announcement at breakfast that she was staying
had been met with mixed reactions by her family. Though she knew they meant
well, she’d had the childish urge to scream at the righteous naysayers ‘You’re
not the boss of me!’ Out of a stronger desire not to look like an ass in front
of CJ’s side of the family, she’d refrained from that or from reminding them
that she was a ‘grown ass woman.’ In the end, her uncle had actually come to
her rescue by pointing out that she was being fiscally responsible turning this
into a vacation with the airfare already