Chocolate Kisses and Love Filled Wishes: Kissing Bridge Mountain - Book 3 by Linda West

disappeared in the sheets of white and became a small red dot moving further and further away.
     
    The girls didn’t say anything for a long time until it was fully out of sight.
     
    Kacey sighed. “I guess he forgot he was my ride home.”
     
    She felt like crying, but decided he really wasn’t worth it.
     
                  Justine looked concerned. “I . . . I’m so sorry, Kacey. I’m not sure what just happened.”
     
    Kacey reassured her.
     
    She had called Tanner’s bluff and she had seen his real hand.
     
    “It’s okay, Justine. What happened was, he showed his true colors. His true ugly colors. I’m fine with it.”
     
    Oddly, she realized she was .
     
    Tanner had been a great distraction for not dealing with her real feelings for Brody or for her career, but she didn’t actually love Tanner.
     
    She knew that now, without a doubt.
     
               Justine was confused. “You could have just told him that the wheelchair was just for a couple of days and that your legs are just fine…”
     
    “Yeah,” Kacey smiled, “I could have...”
     
    Then they looked at each other, and they broke out laughing.
     
     
     
     
     

 

     
     
     
    Chapter 21
     
    D odie made her way down the slippery street in the Lander’s Bakery delivery van, barely able to see through the blizzard. An officer stopped her and explained that no cars were allowed on the road due to the dangerous conditions.
     
    It was Old Man Jennings’ son, Kurt.
     
    Kurt was a lively redhead with a sprinkle full of freckles across his face. He did not make a menacing presence as a policeman, but that fit Kissing Bridge just fine. There was rarely a need for a ticket, nor emergency call, in Kissing Bridge—save a cat in the tree or some other cat-strophe of that vile sort.
 
    “Hey, Kurt! What’s going on?” Dodie smiled.
     
     
     
    “Hi Miss Dodie, sorry but there’s a no-car ban going on right now. It’s not safe to drive.”
                  “Oh, I know, Kurt. I’ve got special permission. I’m on my way to get Kacey out of the hospital. Then we’re going straight back to the bakery.”
                 
    Kurt tipped his hat. “That’s a valid reason! Send her my best then, and be careful! It’s icy, on top of the bad visibility.”
     
    Dodie noticed a red Mustang that was parked by the side of the road. She saw Tanner in the front seat, looking angry. Dodie pointed over to him.
     
    “What’s going on with him?”
     
    Kurt looked over to the sulking figure of Tanner.
     
    “Driving violation. I have to give him a ticket. Like I said, no cars on the road except special reasons such as yours, Miss Dodie. Justine, from the hospital, was kind enough to give us a call and alert us about a speeding mustang.”
     
    Dodie raised an eyebrow.
     
    Good for Justine.
     
    She always had liked that girl since she had met her in cooking class. It had been Justine that called her from the hospital to ask her to pick up Kacey, and explained what had happened with Tanner leaving.
     
    Dodie was happy to pick up Kacey, and kind of glad inside that he was gone. Tanner had seemed great at first, but ever since she’d met him in the flesh, she couldn’t shake the feeling that he was one big phony. Of course, she’d given him the Christian benefit of the doubt, and treated him with kindness, but still, she wouldn’t trust him as far as she could throw him.
     
    As Dodie drove away, she saw Kurt writing out a ticket for Tanner and couldn’t help but giggle.
     
    When Dodie arrived at the hospital, it looked like an abandoned village.
     
    Barely a car was in the parking lot.
     
    The snow continued to fall harder then Dodie had ever seen. She pulled the bakery van right up to the front door.
     
    Justine and Kacey came out when Dodie pulled up. Dodie and Justine helped Kacey into the van. The doctor had given Kacey a new metal hip, as she had fractured her own in the fall, and had