Winter's Mate: Fated on Ice
She trailed off, looking down at her shoes.
“You can,” I assured her firmly.
“Thank you, Dad,” she whispered.
My heart skipped a beat against my ribs at the sound of the word as a sudden wave of bashful heat rushed up my neck, and I actually felt my ears redden.
As she shifted on the swing, a drawing sheet slipped out from her unzipped backpack. I leaned over and caught it before it could hit the dirt. It was a colored sketch of three distinct figures. The first was a tall figure colored entirely in bright pink, neatly labeled Mom—which I knew was how Mia truly viewed Rosie. The middle figure was a small sketch of Mia herself. But the third figure, a tall silhouette colored in deep blue, was