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‘Now?’

‘I’row under my feet’

‘But no one’s going to be there! I mean of course, your mother will be there, but you won’t be able to find a doctor or anything’

‘You’d be surprised what I’,’ Leo informed her with such bone-deep, casual conviction that Heather was left in no doubt that he would have a consultant dashing out to see hiht

He was heading towards the kitchen and Heather followed in his wake, rather like an obedient dog waiting to take orders frorabbed hian to drink, he actually snapped his fingers, and she began telling hi his considered

Leo continued to drink until the water was coone, then he looked at her carefully

He had been looking forward to seeing her again, having, with a sense of satisfaction, regained control over the situation by realising that her vanishing acts had been a direct consequence of the ioing near a man like hihtness, she wouldn’t have spent the teekends he had been up on mysterious away-days

Of course, he wouldn’t touch her with a barge pole now, but it still et when he had tuned in to that high-voltage sexual awareness he had felt e from her

Annoyingly, however, he are that his body was lagging behind his thoughts for once

Not even the alar-bottoan thrown over it—could reduce the surge of adrenaline he had felt the minute she had opened the door to him

The fact that she hadn’t been able to conceal her reaction to seeing him was overshadowed by the realisation that he wasn’t quite as s as he had anticipated

‘Why didn’t you think to call me sooner?’

Heather counted to ten ‘Everything was frantic here By the tis had calmed down and Katherine had been seen to, I called you at your house, but you weren’t there and your mother couldn’t remember your mobile number’

‘It’s programmed into her phone’

‘Which she didn’t think to take with her!’ She took a deep breath

‘Sheit for her once she was at hospital?’

‘Katherine doesn’t see her e, Leo You ht, but she doesn’t In fact, she very rarely reoes out so, no, it wasn’t on her list of requests when I came back here to fetch her so around, then I ht to take it in for her, but I didn’t’

‘And I suppose it didn’t occur to you to look for it because it’s not a necessary appendage for you either?’ He raked his fingers through his hair in frustration because he could feel hi victi, some uninvited eot here sooner if I had been contacted earlier How’s Daniel been?’

‘How do you think?’ Heather asked, and then she subdued her aggression to add, in a more level voice, ‘He’s been pretty rotten, poor kid I think he reht help if you talk to hi Just reassure hi to be okay’

‘Of course’ How the hell was he going to do that? Leo wondered That kind of intimate conversation with his son did not coure throughout his fors…But, no; he refused to think of the unpleasant circu that un to look at hih to occasionally mention his mother, but there had been no heart-to-heart chats about feelings and emotions Hoas he supposed to handle that now? ‘I expect thisbackfor clues on how to deal with the situation