The search continues.

After what had happened inside the chalet, neither Harry nor Jamie could look at each other. Not from any sort of embarrassment with each other. No. If they looked at each other they would burst into fits of laughing once again. They hadn’t wanted to wait around the front of Chester’s rental for a taxi just in case he followed them back out and had instead decided to walk the distance back to the centre of town.

“Oh no, Harry! Please my ribs are killing me,” Jamie pleaded when they’d accident caught each other’s eye and started all over again.

Harry’s cheeks were hurting too from smiling and laughing so much. She didn’t think she’d ever had this much fun before. Had it even been 24 hours since she’d arrived and she’d already had a threesome, been with just another woman, then won a downhill ski race and pegged a guy with a strap-on.

“What was he doing with it in his bag?” Harry wondered aloud. “That’s for chicks? I mean come on.”

“That was for him. I’m certain of it. You made him blow his top in sixty seconds, tops! He’s probably so used to paying for it you could have made a couple hundred bucks right there.” Jamie said full of cheer.

At the mention of money, Arakaya clouded over a little. “Yeah. I wish,” she muttered quietly for herself.

Jamie noticed the sudden change of mood in Arakaya. “How are you for money? I mean, what will you do if you can’t find Hilde?” Jamie was genuinely concerned for Harry. She considered her a real friend in only the short amount of time she’d know her.

“I will probably have to change my ticket and go home. I can’t afford to stay otherwise,” she told Jamie. Harry had a little under $1900 now with her meal at the airport and then ski rentals earlier.

“I’m sure between Max, Zahra and me we can find you somewhere to stay. I don’t think Max would complain about you spending another night in the bed with us.” Jamie hadn’t said it like a come-on or that she was hinting at anything but Arakaya still blushed a little at the recollection of last night together. “I could get you work as an instructor too. You’re more than qualified for that. You’re absolutely amazing.”

Arakaya smiled at Jamie’s compliment. “I don’t have a green card for that though.”

“Ahh…” she hadn’t thought of that complication.

They continued walking in silence for a while after that. Both of them were in deep thought about the situation Harry was in. It was as they had come down off the hilly section Chester’s chalet was in and back towards the flatter part of town that Jamie spoke again to break the hush between them.

“I really wish we’d taken that strap-on with us. I could have made you at least a thousand bucks from Zahra if I used it on her,” Jamie commented. She’d picked a good topic to get Harry talking again.

“You and she have been lovers too?” Arakaya asked, not sure how to put her question.

Jamie laughed. “Oh no! I mean she would in a heartbeat, I’m sure. She’s been dying to get into my pants ever since we met. Although… after seeing the way she was checking you out today, I think I may be yesterday’s news.”

Arakaya’s blush only increased. Harry had noticed it too and been… excited by it? Flattered definitely. Aroused… possibly? Harry didn’t want to tell Jamie she had been thinking these things about Zahra just yet so she changed the focus back onto her. “You never wanted to try things out with her?”

“I’d thought about it sure. But I was already with Max and then we started talking about threesomes and I thought about Zahra some more then.” Jamie had stopped walking “But, then I met you.”

Jamie reached out her hand to Harry who took it. The Canadian cupping her palm and rubbing her thumb on the back of her hand. Jamie then stepped in close and kissing Harry on the lips.

What was it about these foreign women that got Harry so ruffled? As Jamie’s lips met her, Harry could feel the warm moisture as they parted. The butterflies in her stomach turning to hot glow worms as the heat began to rise from between her hips and up into her chest to rattle her heart. Did she know how she set Harry on fire and slicken her pussy so easily? Or was it territorial with all the talk of Zahra finding a new interest in Harry? Jamie kissing and claiming the Kazakh as hers, just as she had done last night and again this morning.

Before Arakaya’s overheating sex could cause an early thaw, Jamie broke the kiss and once again led Harry where they were going. Arakaya left heavy-lidded and kissing the cool breeze for an instant before she got her head back out of the cloud and onto solid ground again.

In town, Jamie did what she could for Harry’s meagre resources by treating her to a late lunch at Tiki Mana Big Bowl Noodle Hut where they both got poke bowls to eat. Harry was able to satisfy the cravings of her tongue after Jamie’s kiss with the delicious flavour of spicy tuna. After eating they made their way to Max’s work where they arrived half an hour early before he finished at 4:30. Harry getting them both Vodka tonics at the bar to say thank you for lunch.

The drinks and the warmth of the in-build log fire helped to chase the chill of the day away and Harry was feeling a little sluggish. Everything that had happened so far plus the jet lag starting to catch up with her. She found it impossible to stifle a huge yawn when Max finished his shift and came and joined them still in his work uniform.

“How did it go today?” Max asked Jamie as he slid in beside her on the bar’s soft leather couches. Kissing his girlfriend on the check as they embraced. “I thought Harry would be with Hilde or her here with you two.”

Arakaya was only just dimly alert at this point so Jamie answered, shaking her head. “No good sorry. We thought we’d finally tracked her down but it just turned out to be a pain in the ass,” she said giving Max a scarily accurate description of the events.

“Damn it!” Max cursed, “I should have checked anyway. Wait here, I’ll be back.”

Before Jamie could say anything, Max was back up out of the seat and striding purposely back towards the offices and accounting area of his work. He kicked himself that he hadn’t checked through the hotel’s booking management system when he’d got to work but had taken the girl’s word that they had found her. It would take him some time but he could go through the database and see if Hilde had ever stayed with them or one of their sister sites perhaps. The chain he worked for having many different properties under management in Aspen and the other snow towns.

Jamie and Arakaya waited over half an hour for Max to return when he finally did, holding a scrap of white notepaper up excitedly.

“Harry, what was the last name of your friend?” Max asked Arakaya urgently.

“Swanson. Hilde Swanson.” The fever in Max’s voice pulling her up out of her slump.

“I knew it!” Max celebrated. Shaking the piece of paper in the air like he had the winning lotto numbers. “Ok, this may not be her but there’s a H. Swanson booked in to have dinner over at The Lounge in the Limelight Hotel not too far from here. The booking was for 5 but if we haul arse, she may still be there when we get there.”

Jamie checked the time on her watch. It was past 5 thirty already. Harry too looking at the clock in the bar.

“Come on. Let’s MOVE!” Max belted when they still hadn’t got their butts into gear.

As one they were up and into action. Harry’s mind racing once again. All this stress and excitement was getting too much for her. Would they make it there in time? Would it even be Hilde?

{Author’s Note: I’ve taken everyone’s feedback on and the chapters will remain at their normal length. This one was naturally just a little bit shorter as I thought it best to follow @Kineticat’s wondering and refocus the story back to the search for Hilde. I noticed an "i" had snuck into Hilde's name about half way through so I've corrected that back out too. Sorry about that!

The next chapter will cover the late afternoon/early evening before we move into the hotly anticipated night time with everyone’s suggestions of course ;-) Is it Hilde? If so, what prevented her from meeting Harry at the airport? Let’s have everyone’s ideas.

Dacia xoxo}