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and wrecking my life!”
    â€œThis isn’t your life. That was your life, back there.” He nodded in the direction they’d come from, where the sled had flipped. “That thing you almost lost—for a television program. That’s your life, and I just about got you killed just now. It’s over. Nothing’s worth that.”
    She jerked her elbows, trying to break his grip but standing no chance. “You can’t just decide that!”
    â€œYeah, I can.”
    â€œGoddamn it, Ty, where is this coming from? From one sled accident in three seasons of shooting? From…from thefact that I told you not to kiss me?” The last couple words came out a mumble.
    His eyes dropped back to hers. “No. I just can’t let you endanger yourself for this. For me.” His hold slackened and Kate yanked her hands back.
    Panicking, she tried a different approach. “You’re over-reacting because you’re freaked out. But I’m fine!” She patted herself down, her shoulders, ribs, thighs. “I’m fine! And this isn’t just your show. This is mine, too, and you know it. All of it, especially out here.”
    He cast his gaze to the snow between their feet. “I’m sorry, but I’m not changing my mind on this.”
    â€œI can’t believe this.” She crossed her arms over her chest.
    â€œIt’s just a stupid show, Katie.”
    How could he say that? This stupid show, as he called it, was the sun Kate’s life had orbited around these past two and a half years. She paused only a moment, just long enough to pull her glove off before she hit him again. Hard this time, an open palm across his face that jerked his head to the side with a snap and left a mean red mark blossoming beneath the heavy stubble on his jaw.
    â€œKate—”
    â€œI’ve signed a hundred waivers to risk my neck for this ‘stupid show,’” she hissed. “You don’t get to fire me because I almost get hurt making a program whose whole goddamn premise is trying to frigging stay alive! Of course it’s dangerous! That’s the point!”
    â€œCalm down.” Ty made a move to grab her flailing arms again but she pulled back, livid.
    â€œNo! I won’t! You don’t get to do this! I’ve put my blood and sweat into this. Literally. Five seasons, you said. You promised me five seasons or until they stop renewing us.Five seasons of this, not me behind a desk in L.A. and you out here where all the good stuff happens.”
    â€œThen I lied, Katie. I changed my mind, okay?”
    â€œDon’t call me that!” She hadn’t corrected his calling her Katie in a very long time. No one ever called her that, not even when she was a little kid. Lovable, perky girls were called Katie, not prickly ones. The nickname was wrapped inexorably up in Ty, in how she felt around him, and she couldn’t hear it now. “How can you do this?”
    â€œIt’s a show. It’s a job. You’ll find another job, if what I’m offering isn’t enough.” He exhaled heavily. “We’ll tweak the terms and I’ll get you an amazing severance package, okay? I mean, where are your priorities? Why can’t you see how big a deal it is that you nearly lost your life back there?”
    Can’t you see that you’re my life now?
    The silence that rang out in the wake of the shouting was deafening. Stomping back to the camera, Kate dusted off the snow and zipped it into its case, then set off along the trail. She could just see Ty’s red jacket in her periphery. Just as well he was on her bad ear’s side. She didn’t much feel like hearing anything he might have to say.
    The flakes fell around them, silent and steady. Kate forced herself back into professional mode and filled her overheated head with concerns of actual survival, not just the canned and dramatized variety. Ty was right about the