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‘Not long?’

‘Can it wait, my dear?’

Carly gave Benson a frustrated look

‘I’ll take care of hireen eyes for his efforts

Rachel touched Carly’s arm ‘Why don’t we have tea in the sunrooht at the market’

Carly hesitated ‘Okay, but I need to change first,’ she said, skipping up the front steps and disappearing into the house

‘Nice wheels,’ Benson noted, gazing at Dare’s bike

Dare grinned ‘She does a hundred kilometres an hour in two point six seconds’

‘If only I were younger,’ Benson be the steps

Dare followed hi Carly as quickly as possible

Dressed in white jeans and a sireen T-shirt, Carly knelt beside the sofa, her black leather bag at her side

‘What happened?’

‘I don’t know’ Dare’s heart thundered inside his chest ‘We were talking and then he collapsed’

Carly listened to his heartbeat

‘Was he agitated? Upset?’

‘No’

His grandfather had obviously been expecting news that Beckett was somehow involved in his company’s problems and, while disappointed, had seeh his hair ‘But he wasn’t completely happy either’

‘We need to get him to a hospital In London,’ Carly said

‘I’ll call triple nine’

CHAPTER EIGHT

HOURS LATER, CARLY stared tight-lipped at the white double doors leading to the operating theatre Benson had been in there for four hours now, add that to the two-hour flight and it was going to be tough for a patient of his advanced years to survive