Hello all and welcome to my blog. Every year my firm sends me to a conference for contract lawyers. Usually I take this trip during the summer months. It gets really hot and some days I wished the conference would be during the winter. I got my wish.
The conference was scheduled during December and one of the coldest months New York city had ever experienced. The national weather forecast a blizzard was coming. I arrived just as the weather channel was stating that the storm would shut down the major city and people should stock up on supplies in case they are snowed in. I didn’t worry because by the time the storm came I would be back on the plane headed to the warm state of California. It never snowed in LA so I didn’t have the winter coat I wished I had right about now. The hotel where the conference was being held had a few stores and I was able to shop for a heavy coat, scarf and gloves. It was expensive but my firm had me covered.
I was looking around for some colleagues of mine when I saw her standing by the counter talking to one of my friends. She was beautiful and had the prettiest smile. I went and said hello to my friend and he introduced me to her. She had a warmth about her as I stood there in her presence. She asked if it was okay that she sat with us during lunch later that day. I went to my room and unpacked my bags. One thing I hated about traveling was leaving things in my suitcases. I traveled with my family during our holiday trips and was always the only one acting like I lived in whatever destination we visited.
Lunch came and went fast, and before we could sit down to continue the conference the manager of the hotel announced the blizzard was coming sooner than expected and we all should make arrangements for return flights home. We were all on our phones immediately and out of all the airlines I called, I couldn’t get a flight out. They were all booked. I could take my chance in the morning by arriving at the airport to see if someone would be a no show. My friend was able to leave but the woman I met had her own plane that was coming to pick her up in a couple of days. She was in no hurry to get home anyway. I wanted to ask her why but left it alone.
I was at the airport at five in the morning and just as I arrived it started to snow. All flights were still booked and there was no change after I finally left at three that afternoon. I went back to the hotel and was hoping they had a room for me to rent since I had already checked out and as I stepped up to ask about renting a room, a sign was placed in front of stating no rooms available. I was about to walk across the street to another hotel when the beautiful woman called my name. I turned and there she was, smiling that beautiful smile. She had said that if I didn’t mind, I could sleep in one of the other bedrooms in her suite. I said yes. Her suite was the penthouse suite and it had three bedrooms, a full kitchen stocked with food and a view of the city.
You could see the blankets of snow falling down, turning the city white. I went and unpacked my bags, grateful of having a place to stay. We listened to the news about the storm coming in and how those that are trying to leave may be stranded for a few days. I thanked her again for letting me stay with her and she said she was glad she had room to spare.
We made dinner together and ate by the fireplace talking about our past and plans we had for the future. The more we talked the more we told each other things that you discuss with your closest friend. She was engaged to a man she knew she didn’t love but she didn’t want to disappoint her family. Her mother was controlling and for once in her life she wished she had the courage to stand up to her. I told her the firm where I worked was owned by my family but I can’t make partner because my father doesn’t think I have what it takes to run the company. I am listed as a regular employee.
She looked at me and I could tell there was more to her story but I didn’t want to push her. It seemed I was stuck in this hotel with this beautiful woman and I wanted to enjoy it. I asked her to dance with me and I promised it would give her some happy memories of her being stuck in a snow storm. We slow danced to the softest music I could find on YouTube. After the second song I asked her if she didn’t mind if I took her hand in mine and to pretend that whatever worries we had they were to disappear. She said yes and we both pretended that the outside world we filled with problems disappeared under the snow.
On the second night the snow storm turned into a blizzard and the woman I was spending time with in a hotel room was in my bed as my lover. We didn’t want to question how it happened but knew we wanted it to happen. I loved her all night long, in the morning and if she allowed me to, in the afternoon. I made her feel like she needed to feel and she did the same for me. I felt she was mine if only for the short amount of time we were given.
After five days in bed with a woman I knew was only meant for me, the storm cleared and the roads began to open back up. I received a phone call from the airline that they had a seat for me on a flight that was leaving early the next day. If I had the power, I would never leave this room without her and live in her arms forever. On the morning I was to leave, I loved her until the moment I had to stop. We did not exchange contact info because she had a life on the east coast and I was on the west. I told her that I wished things could be different but we what we had was just happenstance. I accepted that and flew back to California. When I arrived I told my family either make me a partner in the firm or I was branching out on my own. I was made partner and the firm contracted more clients than ever before. I was in my element but I was missing the beauty I spent with the best week of my life. I prayed she felt the same way.
The next lawyers conference was a year and half later and I didn’t attend. I was a partner now and that job went to someone else. I was glad not to go. It would have been painful to see her knowing she was married now. We had a major client coming in that afternoon and I wanted to go over the notes prepared for me. The client was the owner of several hotels in the LA area and wanted out firm to represent her. The name of the client was the name of the beauty I spent a whole week with but I thought it was just a coincident.
My secretary came to tell me that she had arrived and I got up to greet her. I smelled that sweet perfume before she entered my door but my doubt kicked in a I brushed it off. As I lifted my head to see who was walking in, my breath caught in my throat and I couldn’t breathe. She was standing there even more beautiful than ever. We greeted each other and I offered her a seat. Before I started on the real reason she was there I had to ask her if she was married and why had she moved out here to California. Before she could answer, a woman holding a baby came in and said she needed the baby bag that my beautiful client had instead of her purse. She looked at me and said she wanted me to meet someone.
My life went from being a lonely partner, to a married man and a child in two days. It’s funny how faith works things out for you. My beauty didn’t marry the man she didn’t love and told her parents she no longer will do what they thought was best for her life. She was going to live by her own rules from then on. She called off the wedding, paid for everything and everyone who worked on the wedding plans and moved to New York. It was during that move she found out she was three months pregnant with my son. Since we didn’t leave any contact info with each other, she prayed that God would lead her to me again and He did.
Five years have passed and we have three beautiful boys with another on the way. We are finally getting a girl this time.
I found the love of my life during a snow storm but the weather has been clear ever since.
Peace and Blessings!