Snowbound - Harlequin.com

50 SNOWBOUND
figure it out. They seemed not to have been expected to
be responsible for much of anything. She had one
student in her U.S. History class who’d wrecked two
cars since March, and both times his parents had just
bought him a new one.
Many of her students were great kids; some, like
Erin, were clearly driven. But others were spoiled and
simply marking time. She had two this year in Knowledge
Champs that she suspected were merely padding
their résumés for college: Amy and Troy. Amy was
also one of the weakest participants. But Troy was
different.
As a senior, he was on the A team. He was smart.
But she’d also found him to be lazy. He often missed
practice. His grades were top-notch, but when she
looked at his file she saw that he had participated in
very few extracurricular activities in his first three
years of high school. That had changed this fall, when
he joined Knowledge Champs and won a part in the
fall musical.
Well, it wasn’t her business, but it would be interesting
to see how they responded to her expectations if they
were stranded at Thunder Mountain Lodge for long.
And even more interesting, she decided, as she set
the washing machine to a normal cycle and started
picking out light-colored garments, to see whether John
Fallon opened up to her—or started hiding out in his
quarters.
Of course, she shouldn’t care, considering she’d
never see him again after the snowplows came through.
What was it he’d said? I prefer the solitude. But then,