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.

out here. How about we

go," Owen agreed,

and now he'd

climbed the stairs and went to their

living

She just couldn't hold it in

onto

He opened his

me how to build a

you say you

Stoddard: [???]

how to

you

whole vacation, is that

[Sure, and you're okay giving up your

Stoddard: [shocked emoji]

Owen: [Great, it's settled.]

snowmen-I'll teach you to build a snow elephant if you

his phone aside, flopped onto his bed,

Hahaha, double the

next morning, he got up

everything for the net

hurried to

discover...

The snow had melted?

Melted?!

arrived

you see... it's not that I don't

Owen said nothing.

about that

"It's gone."