MISTLETOE,MOONLIGHT AND MY SECRET의 모든 챕터: 챕터 1 - 챕터 5

The door had barely stopped rattling in its frame and I still hadn't managed to say another word. Maya. It was actually her. Seven months of telling myself the masquerade had been some kind of fever dream, some perfect, impossible night I'd built up in my head because reality had never given me anything to compare it to, and here she was, standing behind a bakery counter with flour on her hands and my child under her ribs. I'd spent the drive up the mountain on a call with legal, cutting off a junior associate mid-sentence because he hadn't read the terms closely enough, and I hadn't thought twice about it. That was simply how I ran things. I did not, as a rule, arrive anywhere soft. "Maya. Is that.....?" I couldn't finish it. I didn't need to. Her face told me everything the rest of the sentence would have. "You need to leave," she said instead, voice tight, already moving toward the door like she could physically push the last thirty seconds back outside with the storm. "The ro

The Aspen Peak Grand occupied the top third of the mountain like it had been carved there on purpose, all glass and cedar beams and a lobby fire that had apparently been burning continuously since the resort opened in 1987, according to the small brass plaque nobody had ever asked for. The resort had sent a truck down for me before dawn, chains on the tires, taking the one lane through town that existed purely because the Vance family paid enough into the county's snow removal budget to make it happen ahead of anyone else's turn. The rest of the valley could wait for Thursday. I'd never once had to. I stood at the window of my suite at seven in the morning, still in yesterday's clothes, watching the plows clear the private drive below while the rest of the valley remained buried under three feet of snow the county wouldn't touch until Thursday at the earliest. The world outside was the kind of quiet that only exists after a storm, no wind, no traffic, just snow settling on snow, t