Free Mile High Love by Tracy Cottingham

young man who brought her ice cream every day for a week when she wasn’t
feeling well, or the one that had held her all night long when she didn’t do well
on a paper or a boy she liked just didn’t like her back. Cassie knew she’d been
lucky enough to have a good marriage, and a loving husband, but she never
experienced the kind of attention and pure adulation Gunnar had given her when
they were younger.  She had never let herself get closer to another human
being, and when she thought about how different he was now, just using women
for his own gain, and being so generally uncaring about others and their
feelings, it made her sad.  He was a once in a lifetime person for her,
someone who she felt had the greatest potential for being everything that was
special all wrapped up in one man, and now he had become just another ordinary
playboy.
                  
She was surprised to find Lonnie sitting on one of the full beds when she
finally made it to the hotel room.  “Where’s Abby?”  She looked
around.
                  
“Last time I saw her she was in the bath,” Lonnie smiled at her sister and
patted the empty space beside her.  “Take a load off and stop skulking
about.  I checked the temperature and the water level, and I can see her
reflection in the mirror from where I’m sitting, okay.”
                  
Cassie didn’t realize she was being so obvious.  She relaxed as soon as
her sister explained, and when she joined her on the bed she could see that
there was definitely a clear view from the bed to the bath as long as the door
was open.  “I’m sorry, I should know better than to insult you where
taking care of Abby is concerned.  She smiled at her daughters’ reflection
and turned in time to catch Lonnie Staring at her.
                  
“What?”  Cassie was self-conscious.  
                  
“Oh nothing, I was just wondering what you’ve been doing with yourself since we
split.  I mean,
    you were pretty deep in thought
when you came through the door, and somehow I didn’t think that Disneyland
would be such a serious undertaking.”
                  
Cassie sighed, knowing when she was beat.  “You’ve always been way too
good at reading me.”
                  
“I aim to please,” Lonnie opened her arms in front of her.
                  
“Oh puh -lease, that sounded just like Gunnar, and I’ve had about enough
of him for one day.”
                  
“So that’s it.”  Lonnie laughed at her sister’s misfortune.  “Leave
it to you to manage to find the one person you don’t want to see in the most
crowded place I’ve ever been to.”
                  
“For your information, smarty pants, he found me, and I might add, I proceeded
to make the
    biggest fool out of myself.  You would have been so
proud.”  She rolled her eyes and flopped on to her back on the bed. 
                  
“We both knew this was going to be hard for both of you to be anywhere near
each other after what went down.  You might have been inseparable when you
were kids, taking every opportunity to bug the living daylights out of the rest
of us with your inside jokes, but time doesn’t heal all wounds no matter how
the saying goes.”
                  
“I know,” Cassie shook her head.  “I was just hoping that eight years
would finally be enough time for us to move on but instead he still takes every
opportunity available to show the rest of the world how awful I am.”
                  
“Bah,” she waived her hand.  “That’s a load.  He had a perfect chance
to bolt when he found out about buying into your company, but he didn’t. 
Why?”
                  
“Probably because it was such a good investment.”
                  
“You’re full of