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Her ood to his ood to his wife but she didn’t want to think of Dare like that She’d been obtuse in a relationship with a o she could easily fall into the saain

Not happening, she told herself

Once Dare left in the ers who had passed like ships in the night and destined to be nothing more

A good thing, since she wasn’t the casual-sex type and by his own adet close to him

And, yes, ju on one level, but what if he was just another h of those already? And not just with men

Frustrated with the way her thoughts kept veering back to all her failings, she grabbed her coed on and checked her eht her attention and she reopened it

The job they were offering her was in Kent where a small clinic needed a temporary doctor to fill in while someone went on maternity leave Would she do it?

Carly bit her lip A sht had re hospital And okay, they were often cesspits for gossip, but it wasn’t as if she’d be fool enough to fall for one of the head doctors again

The question hether she wanted to re-enter that life again And where? Then there was the question of her flat; the one she’d bought with Liv She really needed to do so about that

Oh, Liv, why couldn’t I have saved you?

A fist felt as if it had just closed around her heart What good was a er rose up inside her Anger at herself At life Liv had trusted her and Carly had let her down

Feeling the threat of tears clog the back of her throat, Carly fell back against her pillows and took her coht Liv back to her so Carly didn’t let herself do either now

What she did do was click on a well-known job site and start scrolling down the entries under medical doctors Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill, she told herself

Lost in thought as she was, she started when there was a thump on her door She knew immediately who it would be The Baron waslike that, and Rachel would bruise a knuckle if she knocked that hard