“Is that so?”
“Uh-huh.”
Shane turned and put his arms around her, and when he kissed her on the lips, a different vision of his future flashed in his mind.
Would it work?
Could he risk his heart again?
“Krista, do you want to...”
See where this thing goes when we’re back in Vancouver? Go out for a meal and a movie like a real couple?
The questions were bubbling up inside him, but he bottled them.
Gutless wonder.
“Do I want to...what?” Still in his arms, Krista looked up at him, but the words stuck in his throat.
Training! Studying! New life plan! The minefield! Boom!
“Do you want to...grab breakfast at the service station tomorrow? It’ll take an hour to charge up the car, but we’ll have time before heading back to Banff.”
“Oh, right. Yeah, that would be awesome.”
He searched her face for signs of disappointment, but her perky smile and thecome to bedtug of his T-shirt told him all he needed to know.
Krista knew the score.
She understood how holiday flings worked.
So it was about time that he understood it too.
***
Grab breakfast?
That’sallShane had been thinking about?
Yeah, right.
Krista didn’t believe it for one second, but she’d promised herself at the lake the other night to live in the moment, so she wasn’t going to pursue Shane’s thoughts now. There would be time for talking tomorrowandwhen they got back to Vancouver.
It didn’t matter that Shane still hadn’t mentioned any plans beyond breakfast. Nor that he hadn’t mentioned her flight home. With Ryan. But then, neither had she.
Was he waiting for her to say something?
Was that why he was staring out into the night?
Well, she had news for him. Up on Coral Peak today, she’d come to her own conclusions about what they should do tomorrow morning. She’d made her own plans. Plans that had been simmering ever since Medicine Lake. She’d had enough ofwaitingfor a relationship to happen. So, grabbing that bull by the balls, she’d tell Shane exactly what she wanted to happen between them.
But not tonight.
“Come,” she said. “Let’s go to bed.”
Tonight was just about them. To enjoy and absorb and remember.
There’d be no talk of the future.
