The wind alternitively tore her breath away and blew icicles into her lungs. It whipped her hair into her face and she impatiently tugged her bangs behind her ears but to no avail the wind was simply to strong and blew it right back into her face. She coughed from the pure frigid air and trudged through the ever thickening snow to the cabin’s front entrance.
She slipped on the short sets of stairs and flailed momentarily to catch herself before she landed on her back in the snow. She grabbed herself in time and hauled herself up the rest of the steps to the front door. Thank goodness, she whispered.
Just as she was getting ready to knock the door was flung open and she came face to face with who she assumed was the caretaker of the cabin and to the most intense looking man she had ever seen.
His hair was short and choppy, his eyes a fantastic shade of blue that made her think of the color teal she had seen in some Native American art in the southwest. In those stunning eyes was just a hint of hard granite. His rough two day old beard gave him a compellingly rugged look that made her mouth water and her knees go weak.
As she stood there on the porch freezing, she figured she must look a sight, a mad dash to the airport in St. Louis, the long flight, the dangerous journey by car here could have only made her look like a heathen to him.
“Hi, I’m Dani,” she stuck her gloved hand out but the stranger only took a step back and arched an eyebrow. Strange, she thought, some caretaker. Not very warm and welcoming. “Look can I come in, it’s freezing out here.”
The man stepped aside and let Dani pass the threshold. She walked into the warm foyer and was greeted by more Christmas lights and a bear carved as the newel post holding a welcome sign. Cute, she thought. Homey.
Dani pulled off her fuzzy purple gloves and rubbed her still cold hands together, more than a little flustered as to why the caretaker was crowding her at the door and being very uncivilized and unwelcoming. “Look, can I come all the way in. I am freezing and I would really like to warm up my hands.”
The man with the amazing eyes moved into the main room and Dani took a quick look around, tile floors, lots of wood, rustic colors, everything a cabin deep in the woods on a mountainside should be. At this point she really didn’t care, all she wanted to do was get inside, get warm, maybe unpack her things and take a nice long hot bath in the tub that the cabin touted as being as deep as the ocean and just as luxurious.
Dani walked into the main room, another larger tree decorated with bright lights stood next to a cold fireplace. Lots of comfy couches crowded the space. She could not see the view out of the picture windows, it was too dark but she could imagine it would be breathtaking once the daylight illuminated it. She sure had gone far enough up to get a good look down.

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