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Another sht price,” he said

I’d only seen this side of Caleb once before It’d been when I’d spent Christmas with hi, Caleb and I had gone sightseeing in Seattle and it was like he’d becohed and joked as we’d explored the marketplace, aquariu, kindhearted youngeyes

I eyed hi to cost me?”

He studied me for a moment, then said, “I’ll let you knohen I’m ready to cash in my chips”

There was so about the way he said the words that hadWe’d soerous territory, but I couldn’t find it in me to object

“Fair enough,” I murmured I paused and then admitted my shameful secret “I can’t ski”

“Lots of people can’t ski,” he said

“No, I mean, I really can’t When I was a kid, old medalist who lived in the area I broke her skis… and her arm”

Caleb sat there for a hed “What?”

I nodded “She was trying to guide me down the bunny hill and by the ti on top of her She was only the first in a long line ofanother instructor two black eyes and a broken nose whenthe once and sprained more joints than I can count Even after almost four years of lessons, I never made it off the bunny hill”

Caleb began to laugh so hard he had to put his fork down He covered his lad when he was unable to muffle the sound

“Nice,” I said, feigning irritation

“I’m sorry, I just can’t picture it You’re so… so…”

He shook his head

“So what?” I asked

“Put together… untouchable,” Caleb finally said after settling “I’d have thought you’d be good at everything”

I shook my head “Nope, I was such an aard kid… you wouldn’t have even recognized me”

“Do you have a picture?”