Caitlyn wrapped her hands around a mug of steamy coffee, inhaling the fragrant aroma of roasted Arabica beans. She absolutely loved the smell of fresh brewed coffee, but detested the taste. The only reason she’d brewed a cup was to have something to warm her hands on. She had never been so cold in her entire life.
Having been born and raised in the sunny southern California , she was suffering her first winter on the desolate prairies of Nebraska . The job offer had been too good to pass up, and being two-thousand miles away from Derek, that cheating skunk of an ex-fiancĂ©, was an added bonus. But she hadn’t realized how brutal winter could be until the first blizzard of the season hit and the furnace conked out.
