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‘So what’s your favourite season, then?’ he asked suddenly. ‘Winter, right?’
‘Yes.’ She grinned at her own predictability.
‘Mine, too.’
‘No way.’ Surprised, she turned and walked backwards to look at him.
‘Yeah.’ He nodded. ‘I spend my life chasing winter.’
She frowned. ‘But you’re so tanned.’
He laughed. ‘Because I’m here for the summer recovering.’ He bent and rubbed his hand over his knee. ‘This is an old injury—you didn’t do that with the car before.’
‘Really?’
‘I had an operation a couple weeks ago. I’m about to go for a rehab stint in Canada. Get back into training.’
‘Training for what?’
He grinned a little sheepishly. ‘I snowboard.’
She stopped walking altogether. ‘For a living?’
‘Professional snowboarder. Yes.’
‘Seriously?’ Wow. No wonder he looked so fit. She had to stifle a giggle. She’d never got this close to a professional athlete before. ‘So.’ She coughed. ‘You’re training for the Olympics or what?’
‘The Olympics aren’t for a couple more years, there’s some other big comps before then. World champs are next.’
He really was serious? ‘World championships?’
‘I like gold,’ he said—utterly, utterly serious.
And, oh my, she believed him. ‘So you go from season to season—here to Canada?’
‘Or France, China.’ He nodded. ‘Wherever has the best snow.’
‘And you work on the ski field or have sponsors or something?’
Surprise flashed in his eyes for a second. She didn’t mean to embarrass him, but she didn’t think professional snowboarders would get paid all that much. It wasn’t exactly football and all over the internet all the time.
‘Uh, something like that.’ He nodded. ‘You ever snowboarded?’
She shook her head and turned back to walk along the shoreline.
‘Skied?’
‘No.’
‘But I thought you liked winter.’
‘I do.’ She wrapped her arms around her waist. ‘I like curling up in front of a fire.’
‘That’s what you do after the day on the slopes.’
She mock shuddered again.
‘You should try it some time.’ His amusement warmed his words. ‘You’ll see I’m right. Like I’m right about this.’
