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“I have. I couldn’t sleep and there were these huge animals looking in the window.”
“Animals?”
“Yeah, like deer but not… bigger. Elk or Moose or whatever you want to call them. There were two of them staring in the window. They were huge, much bigger than deer… bigger than a car.”
I chuckled at her comparison, “Damn. That would have been a sight to see,” I admitted. I’d seen Elk and Moose a few times in the distance but never up close.
Right then we heard Felix in the kitchen.
“Felix is back. Put some clothes on and come get something to eat.”
“Give me five, I’ll jump in the shower and be right out,” I informed her.
Daisy gave me a peck on the cheek and a firm slap on my ass. “Don’t be long, I’ll miss you.”
I grinned as she tore herself away from me and headed for the door. “Daisy?” She turned to look at me. “You sure you want to eat right now? Not come to the shower and wash my back?”
“If I come in there, I’ll be washing more than your back and you know it, you dirty boy. Look at the weather out there. Unless you’re planning a mountain trek in that snow, we’ll be back in here before I know it.”
“I need to up my game because I guess you know me too well,” I said, amused.
“I’ve told you before, Jamie Fontaine, I’ve got your number, and you’ll be hard pressed to get one over on me anymore.”
Little did she know I’d been planning for weeks to do just that.
CHAPTER 7
For once I was grateful that Felix had a huge appetite and had scored a delicious spread of breakfast pastries, buttermilk pancakes, sausage patties and a half gallon of orange juice. There were plenty of other supplies in the fridge and pantry, so Daisy made scrambled eggs and toast to go with all of this.
Felix piled up his plate, then made himself scarce. After eating, as he left to go snowboarding alone, he informed us he’d bring dinner back with him this evening. He’d already taken an order from us from a French restaurant menu we’d found in the welcome pack.
The vibe in the cabin felt domesticated with me setting a new fire in the sitting room and bedroom and Daisy stacking the dishes in the dishwasher from our brunch. Afterward, we both snuggled up on the couch with the roaring fire blazing in front of us, and the sunlight sparkling off the snowy backdrop from the window behind us.
“Doesn’t this feel perfect?” she asked after a few minutes of comfortable silence between us listening to the logs crackling in the fire.
“Almost,” I admitted. My response made Daisy look up at me, frowning with concern.
“What’s missing?” she probed with a furrowed brow.
“That it won’t last,” I said with a note of melancholy in my tone.
Daisy stiffened and her gaze grew intense. “Us?”
I scoffed. “Baby, we’re lifers. There’s no one else in this world that could make me feel like you do.” As soon as my words were out all tension left her body and she sagged heavier against me.
“Then what do you mean.”
“This. We have five days—four days now, since yesterday was such a blow out,” I corrected with a heavy feeling in my heart again about what happened to her.
“Oh, this holiday you mean?”
“Yeah, the vacation, but I hate how it feels like it’s ending before we’ve had the chance to enjoy being together.”
She nodded. “Yeah, I know what you mean. Leaving you behind in Paris after Valentine’s Day was tough, and scary,” she admitted.
My gaze ticked over her face in thought. “Scary because people knew about us then?”
“Yeah, I didn’t know what to expect. And to be honest, it’s taking some time to come to terms with people turning up at the pub looking for you.”
