She nearly knocks over her soup. “No way! Omigod!”
“You haven’t been a perfect sub, but you’ve been good enough.”
“I’m going to be the best sub you’ve ever had!”
She has a ways to go to earn that reputation as I’ve been with many experienced submissives, but it doesn’t bother me that she requires more training. I wouldn’t mind doing it, either. She has great potential.
She eats a good amount for dinner. Andy returns from shopping with snow pants, gloves, eyewear, knit beanies, jeans, sweaters, and more.
“You buy the whole store?” I ask of all the bags.
“You didn’t give me her size, boss,” he explains, “so I bought both small and medium stuff.”
Andy makes a quick exist while Casey examines the clothes, picking up a pair of cute overalls with a bib. “Your friend has awesome taste! Or does he work for you?”
“Andy works for me,” I acknowledge.
“That’s cool that you can get him to go shopping for you. Is that what he normally does for you?”
“He’s a jack of all trades.”
After we’ve changed into our ski clothes, we take the car Andy drove up in to the rental shop for boots and boards.
“You didn’t want to be closer to the slopes?” she inquires when we’re driving.
I didn’t get this cabin to ski. It’s a place to conduct business that’s somewhat remote but not too far from the Bay Area.
“I’m open to getting a place closer,” I say.
“I’ve been itching to go snowboarding since the beginning of winter break. It’s all I wanted for my birthday.” She turns to me. “Out of all my friends and family, you’re the only one who actually gave me a birthday gift I wanted. Thanks.”
“We happen to be in the mountains, so why not?”
Truth is, there are other houses I own that I could have taken her to. But I chose Tahoe partly because she had said she loved to snowboard.
“This is my first time in this part of Tahoe,” she says. “I’ve only been to the Southern part, near the casinos.”
I can see her excitement growing as she sees the Olympic flame.
“What’s the vertical drop here?” she asks.
“Twenty eight hundred, I think,” I reply.
“Fucking awesome! My last ski trip was to Bitterwsweet in Michigan. It’s like three or four hundred feet only.”
“We’ll take it slow since you haven’t had that much time to acclimate.”
Lake Tahoe’s altitude is already over six thousand feet. The summit at Palisades Tahoe is about nine thousand feet.
After she gets outfitted for her boots and chooses her board, we hit the slopes.
Standing at the base and surveying the snow covered mountain, she sighs. “It’s gorgeous. I bet the view from the upper lifts are incredible.”
“They are. Depending on how you’re feeling, we can go up to High Camp later.”
“Yes! So what should we start with? The Kt-22 looks cool?”
“That’s a black diamond run. We just got here early this morning, you haven’t had a good night sleep—”