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“You know it! But only if you will go cross country skiing with me tonight in the moonlight.”
She laughed. “I’ve never had a pair of skis on in my life!”
Taking the stack of napkins, she held in her hand; he started placing them at each setting. “It’s nothing, I’ll teach you. I just need to borrow a car, mine is at the garage in town.”
She set the utensils on each napkin and asked, “How damaged is it?”
“Not sure yet. From what I could see before it took the nosedive, there wasn’t any.”
“Well hopefully it’s minimal.” She wrinkled her nose. “Why do you need a car?”
“There’s a ski lodge on the far side of the lake. Can do either downhill or cross country.”
“Huh. I never knew that.”
Jasmine walked in carrying a stack of plates. “Hi Luke,” she said as she made her way over to the buffet table. Setting them down, she turned and looked at them. “Brit, are you coming to the girl’s night at the spa tonight?”
“There’s a girl’s night at the spa?” Luke looked at her. “You go ahead if you want to.”
“I didn’t even know there was one.” She glanced at Jasmine. “Luke and I have plans; we’re going skiing after I work a shift at the bar.”
Luke swung his gaze to her. “You’re working a shift at the bar? It will be too—”
Brit dropped the silverware she was holding then looked at him with huge eyes. “How clumsy of me.”
As Luke bent down and started picking them up, she squatted beside him and whispered to him. “I don’t want to go with them.”
They both stood and she took the utensils from him then dropped them into a bucket. “As I was saying Jasmine, we have a date.”
“Ooooh a date! I don’t blame you one bit.” Jasmine grinned as she started walking towards the exit, she called over her shoulder, “I would rather go with him too.”
“She has a crush on you.” Brit grinned, taking the bucket, she placed it on a cart. “In case you hadn’t noticed.”
He smoothed a hand over his hair. The bashful gesture had her heart fluttering.
“Yeah, I kinda thought that at the wedding. So, when did you want to decorate that tree?”
She looked at her watch. “My shift is done in fifteen minutes. Meet me at the top of the staircase?”
He nodded. “I’ll be there with bells on.”
––––––––
FIFTEEN MINUTES LATER, Brit was climbing the staircase and could hear bells tinkling along with someone talking. Soundlessly she stepped on the top step and froze. Luke was there sitting on his phone talking to someone about her.
“Can you just check for me Lane? I just need to know who oversees the MacGallan family.” He looked up to see her standing there. “I gotta go, just check for me.”
He hung up and stuffed his phone in his pocket as he stood and came over to her. The Santa hat he was wearing jingled with every step.
“I see your phone survived the dip in the lake. Why did you ask Lane to look into the MacGallan’s?”
“Yeah, surprisingly it did.” He frowned. “So, you heard that, did you?”
She nodded. “Yeah. Luke, you don’t want to be messing with them, trust me. Promise me you won’t.”
He took her by the arms and rubbed his hands up and down them. “The only reason why I asked Lane to look into them for me is because we went to high school with MacGallan’s. That’s it.”
Somewhat relieved, she looked up at him. “That’s it? You promise?”
