Love Burned, She Rose Unscathed

Chapter 817

As she spoke, she was already rolling up her sleeves, eager to get started.

"Professor, let's forget the snowball fight-let's build a snowman! Please?"

Owen Reynolds paused, caught off guard.

"Haven't you said you can do anything? Come on, let's make a snowman-even bigger than this one..." Roseanne didn't wait to see his reaction. She started scooping up snow, recalling how the two kids earlier had done it and mimicking their moves.

When she realized Owen hadn't said a word for a while, Roseanne stopped and glanced up at him.

"Professor?"

"...A snowman?"

"Yes!" Her eyes sparkled with excitement.

"...Alright." He crouched down beside her.

Things weren't going quite how he'd imagined, but there was no harm in giving it a try.

As for the result...

Roseanne stared at the two lopsided lumps of snow in front of her. They were awkwardly stacked, neither round nor square, the top smaller than the base. Forget about a carrot nose or button eyes-even calling it a "snowman" was a stretch.

Honestly, it just looked like... two sad piles of snow.

She looked at Owen, her expression somewhere between baffled and speechless.

He rubbed his nose, clearly embarrassed. "Um... I guess I'm not as consistent as

I thought."

"It's fine," Roseanne said, trying to reassure him.

But the more she covered for him, the more mortified he felt.

late... and freezing out here. How about we

Owen agreed,

little boast, and now

stairs and went

her living room when,

burst out laughing. She just couldn't

onto his sofa, and immediately

his messenger app and

me

you could do

Stoddard: [???]

[Teach me how to build

you

take my whole vacation,

[Sure, and you're okay giving up your year-end bonus too,

Stoddard: [shocked emoji]

Owen: [Great, it's settled.]

snowmen-I'll teach you to build

aside, flopped onto his bed, and rolled around with

double

he

everything for the net

hurried to

discover...

The snow had melted?

Melted?!

who'd also arrived early, looked at each

that I don't want to teach you,

Owen said nothing.

about that double

"It's gone."