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‘I didn’t park dead straight,’ Harry grinned Hoas he h?

She hadn’t known anyone’s eyes could get quite so wide She hoped it hurt because the way he was looking at her suggested he thought her bonkers He was probably right Heat suffused her neck and up into her face But control was so important ‘No, you didn’t’ And that had driven her crazy every tiht clothes for the laundry basket out here She glared at hi more

Of course he did It wouldn’t be the Harrison she was co to know otherwise ‘You never just drive in and stop?’

‘Every tiht front corner of the bonnet with the edge of the cupboard on the back wall and voila Perfect

‘I’ as he turned away

‘You think?’ she asked too quickly

Harrison ca ones she still hadn’t got over thinking about ‘I’et that you need to have control over your life What I don’t understand yet is why’

When he was holding her hands as if she was special all her control disappeared, and she had to fight not to lean in against that expansive chest He’d said yet Did that et to know her a little? Hope flared Have a fling with hio the bonds she’d put around her libido Huh? They were already snapping apart, one by one, as Harrison spent more time with her Hard to pull her hands ahen she wasn’t ready to let hi life on track’

‘So off track’

‘Soerous’

Harry stared at her for a long moment ‘I hope not’

He left her with the shattering sensation that he understood her, knehat erous

‘Well, it’s fairly obvious Christmas is just around the corner,’ Sienna quipped as she walked into the paediatric ward on Wednesday, the large bag dragging fro every available surface and then sohed ‘Has there been any work done in here?’

Julie, a junior doctor, joined her ‘It’s a very serious lass baubles, I assure you The kids had a ball’

‘Which has to be good for them So who’s here at the moment?’

‘Felicity’s still around She got aher, she’s up and about, refusing to let this setback hold her down’

‘Has she got over her anger atout on the school trip?’ Fliss was one her favourite patients, not that she could ever admit that out loud, but any time the teen had problems she felt bad for her

‘I think so, but check her out for yourself Here she comes’

Felicity was running down the ward, arht? I heard what happened You look pale and wobbly Shouldn’t you be sitting down?’

Sienna braced herself for impact, but Felicity skidded to a halt just short of a collision ‘Hello to you, too’

Fliss grinned ‘It’s not the same around here without you’

Water filled her eyes Sniff ‘Thought I was the dragon lady’

Fliss’s cheeks were full of colour and her breathing only slightly laboured Definitely ready to go hoon on their side We were told you’d be away all week’

Sienna winced ‘I’ve only dropped in to see how everyone’s getting on’ Her head still thumped intermittently and she didn’t want to push it when decisions about other people’s health were at stake At the sa her insane The only reprieve had been when Harry dropped in to check up on her or bring a‘And to hand these around Co, the sterile white walls no longer glaring It happened every December yet this was the first time she’d taken serious notice ‘Did you have a hand in the decorating?’

‘I helped the little kidsseen as a softy by other teens or adults, but she could no more refuse a small child assistance than Sienna could refuse to treat a sick person ‘Soood but we put them up anyway’

‘That’s what it’s all about’ Her fingers itched to straighten the large cardboard star with uneven glitter hanging on the wall Turning her back on it, she looked into the roo patients ‘Want to tell o?’