Chapter 48

Tommy sighed as he looked out of the cabin window again. The snow was falling faster now. There had been snow flurries most of the afternoon. The addition so far has amounted to about four inches. Now it looked like it was going to get severe. The weather people had anticipated this one, and for once, it looked like they might be right. There was supposed to be another eighteen inches by morning, though most of it was supposed to fall during the evening. Well, he was warm in his cabin up here in the foothills, and it was Sunday. Tommy had nowhere to go until Monday morning, so let it snow. He had come up here to get away from the rest of the world, so the snow just added to the desired significance of privacy.

He was adding a few logs to the fire when he heard a knock on the door. He wasn't foreseeing anyone and wondered who would be out in this weather so far from nowhere. He opened the door and found a gorgeous woman about his age standing there. She had a long winter coat o