Alpha's Embrace 2(3)
“You can reach me at the actual resort Mags, but not if I find Darian, and I’m not sure I will, but if I do then there’s no service at his cabin,” she noticed her friend looked worried. “Hey, I’ll keep in touch as much as I can, but don’t worry I’m not going to wander off alone, I promise.”
Maggie looked at her friend, “Make sure you don’t.”
“Yes mom!” Lyanne laughed.
They finished their breakfast and Maggie drove Lyanne to the coach station, it didn’t seem like five-minutes ago that Lyanne came home. It was a quick turnaround but she knew it was right. Maggie hugged her friend goodbye and Lyanne made her way to board her coach.
The coach was quiet, which surprised Lyanne as it was still the height of the skiing season. She chatted to the ticket girl as she came around, “Excuse me, why’s it so quiet? Is this normal? Last time I flew out the plane was busy. Are the coaches just quieter than the planes?”
The girl looked at Lyanne with a very agitated expression on her pretty face, “I probably shouldn’t tell you this miss as you’re traveling out there, but there have been recent reports of wolf sightings close to the Blackcomb Ski Resort. There was even a fatal attack on a young guy a little while back.”
Lyanne knew she was referring to Nathan, but decided not to go into it with her. She just said thank you and the girl went about her job.
Now Lyanne’s mind was racing. Was it the same pack of wolves she’d seen? The ones that attacked Nathan. Darian had promised her that they wouldn’t harm her, but how in all honesty could he know that. She hoped she’d made the right decision in returning, she’d come so close to being seriously hurt by wolves on her last visit. Talk about jumping straight back into the lion’s den or the wolf pack in this case!
The duration of the journey went by with no major issues, except for a man who was feeling sick. Lyanne felt sympathy for the man. The start of his vacation was the coach trip and for most of it, he was busy throwing up into a bag.
The coach took them straight to the Blackcomb Ski Resort and Lyanne checked into her hotel and started to make her way to her room. She went up in the hotel’s lift, Lyanne had never felt comfortable in lifts, but being a bigger girl, the stairs were always hard work for Lyanne. She should have taken them really for exercise purposes but with her bag to carry, the lift was the easy and lazy option.
As she arrived at her floor the lift doors slid open and Lyanne walked to her room, she knew the hotel fairly well, as it was the same one her and Nathan had stayed in. She chose it again as it was reasonably priced with good food and comfortable modern rooms. It also offered panoramic views of the snow covered mountains and forests.
Lyanne opened her door with the card key and pulled her wheeled suitcase through the doorway behind her. She was traveling light for Lyanne, but her suitcase still weighed an absolute ton. She sighed as she flopped down on the soft bed. It felt very strange to Lyanne, back in the same hotel, back in the same ski resort.
She wasn’t even sure when she’d visited with Nathan if it was the right thing to do as she couldn’t ski very well, but now her doubts were even worse. She wasn’t used to traveling alone, and sitting in her single hotel room on her own made her suddenly feel very vulnerable and lonely.
She decided to unpack her suitcase to take her mind off feeling alone, so she knelt down on the floor beside it as there was no way she was going to lift it up on to the bed!
Lyanne hung the relevant clothes up in the roomy, made for one person, closet. She then folded all the other items and put them neatly away in the drawers. She kept her blue jeans and cream and red-checkered shirt on for dinner; she looked in the mirror and nearly fainted at her reflection. Her hair was a mess.
“Right, better fix that then,” Lyanne chuckled to herself as she sorted through her shoulder bag for a hair clip. She found her favorite banana style clip and quickly put her long wavy red hair up out of the way in a high ponytail and secured it in place with the black clip. She rummaged around for her make-up bag and just put some light mascara and lipstick on, Lyanne wasn’t a massive fan of make-up and wore just enough to highlight her naturally pretty face.
After one final look in the mirror, Lyanne decided she would pass as a human and made her way out of her room to go down for dinner. She looked along the hotel corridor as she left her room and caught a glimpse of a familiar figure. Shuffling around the corner and heading for the stairs was Lisa. Lyanne would have recognized her anywhere. She was wearing her long ginger hair in a neat plait and she was shuffling along with her head down as she’d done when Lyanne saw her before.