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All except for one, anyway

He was thinking about that, about Jacob, when he caught the flash of a cherry-red knit cap at the bottoe He tried to focus in but the sun slanted over the peaks and right into his eyes

He shook his head What was he thinking? Bailey wasn’t here She had no reason to be here Clearly he was tired He and his team were scattered across the mountain and had been since oh-dark-thirty o’clock They’d been avalanche training, which was exhausting He had a break co it stretched out on the floor of his office

So naturally a call came in over his radio A snowboarder had just crashed into a tree on White Chute From where he stood halfway down Hoht on his heels

They cut through the trees due east, across the runs Stagecoach and Comstock, and came out on White Chute

"If wea tree in slo- splat, we’d cut these incidents in half," Mitch said as the two of theh terrain with the ease that years on this iven them

Mitch was a friend of the family Like Aidan, he worked at the resort and was also a firefighter in the off season He was also possibly the world’s second-biggest sht behind Hud hi branch and snorting when Mitch didn’t duck fast enough and caught it across his helmet "Our lawyer nixed it Said it was bad pro at the base of a tree halfway down White Chute, bookended by two buddies Their guy was clutching his leg, not his head--a good sign Another was that he’d reuy’s side Mitch was on the radio, directing the patrollers on their ith a sled to get the guy down the uy said to Hud

"You’re not going to die," Hud said, visually assessing the situation No visible injuries--which meant zip "What’s your na?"

"No" Sean shook his head, pale and waxy

His friends looked the saovers or if so to open your boot," he said

"Dude, no!" Sean shook his head vehe to fall off!"

Hud and Mitch exchanged a look Sean and his buddies all had a certain scent to the weed Apparently they’d skipped the ht to paranoia "I’ll be very careful," Hud assured Sean

"It’s okay," Mitch told his fall off on his watch"

Hud had been very carefully loosening the guy’s boot to get a look while Mitch spoke And… shit Sean had a compound fracture and it wasn’t pretty Blood had filled his boot

"I’ erratically

Hud ain and Mitch i to need ht to General Hospital Trau," Seanover hi" As long as they got him to the hospital before shock set in or he bled out Hud and Mitch went to work on that

When the sled arrived and Sean was about to be loaded, he yelled, "Stop!"

Everyone stopped

Sean slapped a set of keys into Hud’s hand

"What’s this?" Hud asked

"My car It’s a ’68 Camaro, man I want you to have it, so I bequeath it to you It’s in the lot"

Hud shook his head "You’re not dying"