Chapter 37: Chapter 37

Caden took her hands, skating beside her. "Jocelyn, you're so easy to skate with, so fluid on the ice. You could have gone to the Olympics." He smiled at a personal memory. "Every time I watched the Olympics, I always wondered if I would see you there one day."

A delicate blush colored her cheeks a light shade of pink. "That's very kind of you to say."

He turned, skating backward and took her hands. "Tell me something. Didn't you ever think of leaving?"

"Christmas Cove?" she asked.

He nodded.

"No, never." She shrugged as she let his hands go and skated to the center of the pond. "I guess I never felt the need." She spun around in a tight spin, going faster until she extended her arms and came to an abrupt stop. "Christmas Cove is my home. I never want to leave."