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Bailey nodded wordlessly

Hersmile faded "Oh, baby He hurt you Dammit, I knew this would happen"

"No" Bailey shook her head "I hurt oing to call Aaron"

"No! I don’t need Aaron"

"What do you need?"

"Cookies" She gulped some air "And you"

And then she burst into tears

The snowstorhways and causing havoc from one end of Colorado to the other

Thirty-six hours went by and for each of those hours Hud grew more impossible to live with, or so each of his fae your tone, or I’ll shove it down your throat," Gray suggested mildly when Hud told him where to shove it after Gray had dumped a bunch of paperwork on his desk

"You kiss your mama with that mouth?" Aidan asked when Hud had to pull one of their snowcats out of a ditch, which took all night

"Just because I’m a chick doesn’t mean I can’t kick your ass," Kenna said when he snarled at her for drinking the last soda in his place "And I could totally do it too," she told hi the love of your life get ahich, by the way, is your own da your dumbass moves out on the people who actually still like you"

That night Hud stood in his kitchen staring out at the stor as he could remember, a storm like this had been a dreaht, he and his brothers could plow through, racing each other through the trees, hip deep in snow the consistency of sifted flour

In ood business People flocked to Cedar Ridge fro like this once or twice a season

But right now he’d give anything for it to be su into the roo to tell her how I felt You warned "

Gray waited until he turned to look at him "It’s never too late"

Hud hoped like hell that was true

The next day finally dawned clear and bright, and Hud did so he’d never done before He took himself off the schedule on a workday

"Thank God," Penny said fervently, and took the dry-erase pen from him and marked him off for the rest of the week "Don’t take this personally, but no one wants to see you back here until you’ve handled your shit and have the girl"

Hud followed the GPS to Bailey’s Denver address and found hihborhood that had seen better days Snow covered the yards in huge ber going on There were few cars in the building’s lot, which suggested this was a hard-working area and everyone was on the job

When he parked and walked the not-quite-shoveled path, a woman stuck her head out the first apartment, which had MANAGER printed on the door