I had left the kids with my parents and kissed them goodbye. I needed to get away for a few days so I could center myself again. Several things had happened during the previous week. I lost my job, my husband of fifteen years decided that he needed fresh meat and moved in with a woman, well, a girl is a better word that he had met at the gym.
Our children were crushed, but I was in no state to deal with it. Maybe that makes me a bad mother but there was nothing I could do about it.
I packed my skis and clothes for a few days and then called ahead to the lodge where we usually stayed and booked a room, but for one.
When I reached the little ski resort five hours later I had a headache from glaring into the sun and the white snow all around me. I parked and walked into the reception.
“Mrs. Lambert, it’s so good to see you. Where are Mr. Lambert and the children?” said the owner, Jurgen Horst.
Jurgen had moved to the States from his home country of Austria in the late 70’s and had set himself up as the proprietor of the ski lodge. There were a few others in the valley but his was above and beyond the best, and he was a darling of a man.
“They couldn’t come. I’m just here by myself; I needed some fresh air, that’s all.” I said.
Jurgen had a worried look on his face and said, “It is not good to ski alone, you never know what might happen up there on the mountain.”
“I’ll be fine; I won’t go off the normal slopes.”
“Mm, anyway, it’s good to see you. Please sign here and here.”
The room was small and comfortable, a single bed, a bathroom with a shower stall and a wash basin. The view was spectacular with the mountains behind the pine forest.
I lay down on my bed after taking a headache pill and closed my eyes. I tried to relax but the thoughts of how everything had suddenly become so fucked up wouldn’t let me sleep.
It all started with Josh, my husband, leaving last Monday. I had begged him to stay and asked why he was leaving. He didn’t answer, just got into his BMW and left. The following day I had an argument with a co-worker, it was a stupid thing, but due to my stress level I exploded and told the poor woman where she could shove her pen. My boss heard it all and tried to calm me down, but when I turned on him and said what ten years working for him had done to me, his face turned red and told me to leave immediately.
It was true, the man was impossible, but the job paid well and the hours were good. When I stood outside on the street tears began to run down my cheeks. What was I to do?
At forty-six I was no longer a spring chicken. I had my degree and experience, but who would hire me? The kids were both in their teens so they would eventually come around and understand that mommy and daddy no longer lived together.
On Thursday I got a letter from my husband’s lawyer which informed me that he wanted a divorce as soon as possible. If I agreed he would give me the house and one of the cars plus pay alimony for me and the children. The amount wasn’t too bad; we could live on that until I found a new job. I signed the papers and sent it back to the lawyer.
*****
My headache was gone and when I looked at the alarm clock on the bedside table I saw it was already five in the afternoon and dark outside. It was too late to go skiing so I took a long hot shower and then got dressed.
Jurgen Horst was old school. He liked his clients to dress up when going to dinner. During the after-ski session, normally between five and seven in the evening it was okay to wear ski clothes, boots included, but if you had not been skiing then a formal dress was expected.
When I walked into the large room which was the bar a few heads turned. I am not very tall but I have a good body for my age even though I have to admit there have been some nips and tucks together with some lifts. No silicone, my boobs are natural and still firm and large for my size.
I wore a dark red long dress with high heels and a fake fox fur over my shoulders. My hair was done up and I wore evening makeup.
I smiled at a few couples that I recognized from previous trips and made my way to the long bar. Behind it stood Manuel, the bartender. He was a gorgeous Colombian guy that Jurgen had hired a few years before after he caught him trying to steal skis out of a shed. It was a stupid idea since Manuel couldn’t ski and had never seen snow before he came to America. I guess Jurgen saw the son he never had in the young man and Manuel need a man to guide him after his own father had been killed during a shootout back in Bogota. After that incident, his mother had shipped him off to relatives in the States.
“Mrs. Lambert, you look fantastic this evening,” he said.
“Thank you, Manuel. The usual, please.”
I watched him mix a Bloody Mary and when it was done I bit off a piece of the celery stalk and then sipped the drink from the straw. The alcohol flowed into my blood stream and I relaxed a little more.
I counted six couples sitting at low tables in the bar. It was a good turnout considering the season was almost over. Along one wall a huge log fire burned and sent shadows playing over the walls. Hunting trophies hung all around me and in one corner stood a wolf and in another a bear.
According to legend, Jurgen had shot them both in the early years of his business when seeing such animals were common in this part of the state. He denied it but with a glimmer in his eye, like if he remembered those days as better.
I was the only single person in the room and I felt the looks I got. Some of the people knew my husband and they must be wondering where he was, making up their own ideas and fuelling the gossip. I didn’t care; I was there to enjoy myself and didn’t want to get talking with them.
When Jurgen announced dinner was ready we all got up and walked into the dining room. It was a copy of the bar except for the wolf and bear. The walls covered in hunting trophies and a smaller fire burned at the short end. We all sat down and Jurgen’s kitchen staff began serving.
The ski lodge had no menu. Everyone ate the same thing for dinner and breakfast. Lunch was often a few sandwiches made to go.
This evening we had salmon as an entree followed by turkey breast in white wine and mushroom sauce. I asked for white wine and a glass of sparkling water. The dessert was Strawberry sherbet and I had a coffee.
After dinner, I had a few more drinks in the bar and talked to Manuel who told me about his family back home. Before ten I decided to call it a night and went back to my room.
The drinks had made me a little tipsy and while I took off my dress, bra, panties and stocking my hands played with my boobs and I giggled like a school girl as they came erect.
Without thinking much about it I lay down naked on the bed and let my hands explore my body. I usually didn’t play with myself at home, mostly because there never seemed to be time. The kids needed something, my husband called me or the phone rang.
Josh and my sex life had been good in the beginning but after the children were born it slowly trickled down to ones a week, then ones a month, to finally a few times a year. I liked sex, and I thought Josh did too, but I guess he got tired of the same pussy every day and in the end just didn’t want it anymore.
My finger slid in between my legs and I was already moist. The little tuft of dark brown hair tickled my palm as I began to run it up and down while my middle finger slid in and out of me. I felt like a dirty little slut and to make it even more so, I spread my legs wider and then pulled my knees up towards my chest. The sloppy sounds my fingers made as they drove me closer to my orgasm were music to my ears. I could smell my juices mixed with the body cream I was wearing.
When I came I came hard and loud. I knew the walls were thick so I really let go of one of those porn type moans as my body bucked and my legs trembled while the orgasm rushed over me.
When it was over I lay in the darkness and wondered when I would get a real cock in my yearning cunt. It never dawned on me that Josh had just left me and that maybe I should try to get some time between him and a new man. Who gave a shit? I didn’t need a man; I wanted a cock to fuck me. I felt like a horny teenager and it made me laugh.
******
The following morning I woke up with the sun. I quickly got dressed in my ski clothes and then went down for a hearty breakfast of eggs, bacon, strong coffee, and some fruit.
I was first in the line to the lift that would take me up to the top of the mountain and I got to sit on the bench type contraption all by myself. As the lift brought me higher and higher I took in the views around me. Below the pine forest was thinning out and the snow took over. A few minutes later there were no trees just miles and miles of snow and rocks. I saw no other skiers so I presumed I was the first that morning which was good. It had snowed overnight and there was a ten-inch layer of powder snow. I loved to ski powder, it felt like I was skiing in ice-cream.
When the lift chair reached the summit I slid off it and glided to a stop. The lift attendant, an older man, nodded but didn’t say anything. I checked my goggles and then pulled down my hat over my ears. The sun hadn’t reached this part of the slopes and there was a cold wind blowing in my face.
I pushed off with my poles and began to make long turns through the powder snow. I knew I had about a mile before I reached the point where I had to turn and use a track to get back to the lift again.
On three sides were tall mountains and the slope I was on was shaded by them. As I skied down I saw from the corner of my eyes how the sun slowly reached over the tops and began to light up the valley.
Suddenly there was a booming sound, like thunder. I turned to my right only to see a white cloud coming at me. Avalanche, went through my mind. I lowered myself into a hunkering position and went straight down. I am a good skier with strong legs and shoulders, but after a minute of being in that position at that speed, my legs began to feel like cooked macaroni. I knew I couldn’t keep it up for much longer and I was hoping to escape through the trees where they would slow down the oncoming mass of snow.
I was wrong, suddenly my legs gave up from under me and something hit me so hard in the back that all the air was pushed out of my lungs. I fell, the skis coming off my feet, then I lost my poles. The goggles were ripped off my face together with my hat and I began to roll over and over. When I tried to breathe snow entered my mouth and nose and I was suffocating. Meanwhile, my body was slammed into the ground with each roll. I covered my head as best I could but then I hit something hard and everything went black.
*****
“Lady, lady, can you hear me? Please wake up!”
The voice sounded like if it was miles from me, but slowly it came closer and my eyes flickered open.
“Oh God, you are alive! I am so glad.”
The face looking down at me was young, and he had a big smile on his face.
“Are you okay, is anything broken?” he said.
“I..I..do not know.”
My entire body hurt and when I tried to take a deep breath my ribs exploded in pain.
He must have seen it on my face because he said, “You might have broken a rib or two, and you have a gash on your forehead.”
He helped me to stand up and as he did again the pain cut through my side. I took several short breaths and the pain flowed away.
“Can you walk?” he said
“I think so, but shouldn’t we wait here? I mean someone will be coming for us.”
He looked up the mountain and slowly shook his head. “That might take several hours. The avalanche left debris all over the slope and we are cut off.”
I realized I had no idea who this young man was. “Who are you?”
“Oh, sorry. I’m Mike. I was on the slope across from you, I live in the next valley, over there,” he said and pointed.
“I’m lucky you saw me.”
“Yeah, but it took me a while to find you. I thought you would be buried under several feet of snow, but luckily you ended up on top.”
I looked around at the ravaged landscape. We were below the tree line but there were no trees, only stumps where they had been; cut off like toothpicks by the snow.
“What should we do?” I said, feeling weak again.
“There is an old log cabin a bit further down. We can take shelter there until they can send a search party for us.”
“Are you sure? Wouldn’t it be better to stay here, where we are more visible?”
He pointed at the sky. “Look, a storm is coming.”
I followed his arm and he was right. Dark clouds had begun to form and the sun was gone. The wind had increased and I felt the temperature had dropped a few degrees since I had been on the lift.
“We have to take shelter or we will die out here. Trust me. I have lived here all my life and I know how the weather can turn on you.”
“Okay, lead the way, but go slow.”
He put his arm around my waist and we began the slow walk to the cabin over fallen trees, branches, and upturned rocks.
After a few hundred yards I realized my ribs weren’t that bad after all and I could walk without Mike’s help. This made us be able to move faster and after half-an-hour I saw the roof of a building in front of us.
“There it is,” said Mike.
The door was locked but Mike used a small rock to break one of the windows in the door and reached inside to unlock it.