But no way was he hanging around for anyone to say that to him now.
Instead, he’d hauled his poker face on and got the hell away. What else could he do? Watch the Cute Couple Show, like everyone else at that damn service station, clap and whoop? No thanks.
Tearing down the highway, mountains blurring past, he turned his music up full blast, just like he did before a race when he needed to focus, and zoned out everything except the road ahead.
In twelve hours, he’d be back in Vancouver. He had training. He had studying to do.
He had his new life plan.
Which didn’t include Krista in it.
Chapter 21
Throughout the wholeflight back to Vancouver, Ryan had been so attentive. He’d barely glanced at Zoey, who’d sat at the front of the airplane with the half of the group who didn’t go on Sergeant Ryan’s mission to track Krista down.
At the back, Krista could hear Zoey laughing, catching glimpses of her shiny raven hair flicking this way and that as she talked. Ryan still hadn’t said anything about making out with her in the hotel gardens, and Krista hadn’t asked. She was still in shock.
How could Shane have left her like that?
She wanted to call him. But despite knowing his sexual preferences, she didn’t know his number.
How very Lisa of her.
But out in the Rockies, Shane had been by her side 24/7. There’d been no need to swap numbers. Adding Shane to her contacts list was yet another real-world thing that Krista had planned to do this morning—like the hotel room reservation in Revelstoke.
Like telling Shane they should carry on seeing each other.
This reverse order of things—of sex before dating—had thrown her. She’d never been thejump into bedkind of woman. She’d always gotten to know her bed partner well before they’d ever hit the sheets. But wasn’t that just the thing? Krista hadfeltlike she knew Shane. After the ice had broken between them at Lake Louise—after he’d seen her at her worst—she’d felt so comfortable with him, like she’d known him forever.
So what did that say about trusting her feelings?
The argument by the lake had been a warning, but she’d been too swept up with the wholelive for the momentvacation romance thing to take notice.
A bag of cookies appeared under her nose. Darren was passing them around. Even though her stomach was inside out, Krista managed to eat one. And she managed to laugh and banter with her friends. No one had asked what she’d gotten up to with Shane. Maybe because she’d already nipped any gossip in the bud by droning on about switchbacks, and meltwater streams, glaciers, and scrambling up steep mountain slopes.
Or maybe they didn’t ask because Ryan was sitting next to her and everyone now thought they were a happy couple.
