A Father For Her Child. Laurel Greer

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       Prologue

      April

      Zach Cardenas wrenched his key in the lock on the first-aid shack near Sutter Mountain’s summit and drew another line in his mental tally.

       One workday closer to Whistler.

      Not to forgiving himself, or Sam.

      But he clung to the hope that making another figurative payment on the debt he owed would ease the guilt and grief wedged in his heart.

       Or visiting the accident site will be one more reminder of how watching over Cadie means keeping one promise but breaking another.

      Jamming his keys in the pocket of his ski patrol jacket, he erased the unwelcome thought. In a week he’d climb on a plane. He wasn’t one for countdowns, but honoring Sam’s final requests had become all-encompassing and couldn’t be realized until he and their buddies went on a memorial backcountry trip to British Columbia.

      The ones who’d survived, anyway.

      Lucky, the news had called them last spring. Zach scoffed. The reporters wouldn’t have chosen that description had they been the ones left desperately digging through snow for survivors, only to board the homebound plane with three fewer passengers.

      Nor would they have framed him as a hero had they known about the argument he’d had with Sam the night prior to the avalanche.

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