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for the camera.”
                 
    “That sounds good to me.”
     
                  “I… I could teach them how to snowboard,” Kacey offered.
                 
    A gorgeous, wide smile stretched across Tanner’s face. “You can read my mind?”
                 
    Right then she was glad he couldn’t read hers.
                 
    Brody, Brody, Brody, she kept repeating over and over in her head.
                 
    “I’ve got plenty of other celebrities coming in,” Tanner said. “Courtesy of…” He glanced down at his paper. “Aero Anderson. Anderson. Is that anything to do with you?”
                 
    “Oh no,” Kacey said. “Those are my brothers! Brad used to be a pilot for American Airways, and Jason was in the military, but they both fly locally now.”
                 
    He looked at her with such calm, interested respect that it made her feel uncomfortable. “So, so… so who have you got coming?”
     
    Tanner tapped the side of his nose. “I like surprises.”
                 
    Kacey didn’t like surprises. They set her heart racing. Just like… No. Just like no one. No one but Brody.
                 
    “I think I’m gonna go out and train,” Kacey announced, getting to her feet.
                 
    Dodie gestured towards her rum. “But you haven’t—”
                 
    “Never mind,” Kacey said, picking it up. “I’ll just take it to the kitchen now. I’m getting awfully hot in here.”
                 
    And she was gone.
     
     
     

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter 9
     
     
                   U p on the slopes, Kacey felt free. All her thoughts and worries disappeared somewhere into the cold air, as she switch nollied and busted a method air off a cornice.
                 
    How could she not snowboard? Sure, she understood that the doctors and coaches had to give her advice and were looking out for her, but she told herself they were being over-cautious to cover themselves. The last thing they wanted was a high-profile lawsuit from an Olympic athlete.
     
    They didn’t understand, though.
     
    Sitting indoors, watching the snow fall and not getting a chance to feel it under the smooth board, to get the rush of hurtling down the mountain? No chance. It would feel like death itself.
                 
    She had to get the Olympics. If no one else was going to help her, she’d have to help herself. Though she felt little strains and twinges in her back, where her disc had herniated, she convinced herself they were just psychological. She was just psyching herself out, and had to push through the twinges until she came out the other side. Her body wasn’t used to her old level of training.
                 
    So she twisted, turned and nose grabbed.  She twisted down the slope until she reached the bottom. There was no feeling so glorious in the whole world as busting some crazy tricks, then sliding down to the flat as if nothing had happened at all, with a nonchalant smile on her face—though her heart leapt inside.
                 
    But all that cool nonchalance was swept away as she caught sight of Tanner a little way off, watching her.
    He had his legs parted wide in the snow, his hands on his hips, and a huge smile on his face.
                 
    “Wow,” he said, walking over to her. “Now that was really something. You gunning for the Gold in South Korea?”
     
    She fumbled with her bindings to unclip her feet. “Yep.” She was surprised by how assured, how definite her voice sounded.
                 
    “Even with your injury?”
                 
    She blinked, then remembered it was all over the commentary. The fame was still hard to get used to.
    “Yes. People say I shouldn’t, but I know my body better than