Callie stepped back into the ballroom to see her father and Dennis starting another Scrabble game with two new players. Rosemary and Pam sat at the table with the Porter family and Kelly. A small speaker sat on the piano, playing holiday tunes as the women took a break.
“What are you doing back so soon?” Rosemary asked as she pulled a chair out for Callie to sit in. “Something happened, didn’t it?”
“They found a third vehicle in the snow,” Callie quietly said. “Mark went to the scene to check on things.”
“Oh, no,” Stan said, shaking his head. “I knew there was someone on the road behind me. I should have done something to stop them.”
Rosemary smiled at him kindly and said, “Stan, there was nothing you could have done. An avalanche is a force of nature that is beyond your control. We tr
