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‘Got to go There’s been a crash on the Brinduan’s’
‘Catch you later’ How cool was that? Talking to Harrison came easily, and as far as she could tell he hadn’t been annoyed with her phoning They’d even talked about last night in a roundabout way and she still felt comfortable with him
On the footpath a wo hit Sienna Owning a dog would be fun, special, a pet to love and rush home to at the end of the day And not fair on the ani that one on the list Nor was a pet a man replacement
With all the , she’d never had a dog or a cat Not even a pet rock Her father had always said no when she’d asked for a puppy They’d lived how he decreed, and that was that
It’s in his bones, the need to continually e hie Harry If you wanted to
She didn’t like the idea of losing Harry from her life, but she also wasn’t about to e his lifestyle Nor would she ever go back to the nomadic way of her childhood She just couldn’t
Despite the sun pelting down on her arot in too deep too quickly? Was she going to be able to wave hioodbye and not fall apart?
She had no choice
She had to hts she had That was all Suck it up and enjoy; laugh and have fun This was starting to sound as though she cared too much for Harrison Cared? Loved? Her heart skittered She loved Harrison? As in give-up-the-life-she’d-made-for-herself-to-be-with-him love? To follow him anywhere? No All her adult life she’d believed she would never do that for anyone, and that hadn’t changed even if her laere ht lines This wasn’t love More like deep friendship with benefits Gah That sounded terrible Strange how she couldn’t coh
Harry siet Sienna out of his systeht they’d shared Froed, becohout the hours in his room Bad for the future Good for now
At least Sienna would be at ho this thing out of their systems She’d surprised hiood that hadhe had never had Seriously? A simple phone call and he was all hot and flustered? Who knehere they were headed with this? This fling? Interlude? Getting together It wasn’t so permanent They both understood they were opposites, wanted very different futures, so this had to be about having fun and using up soht?
‘Three minutes to destination’ The pilot’s confident voice sounded in his headphones
‘Roger’ Where did Roger coht, or Gerry? Harry shrugged and looked out the , his head space alove with Sienna the first ti else he couldn’t name Couldn’t, or wouldn’t? Afraid to look the truth in the eye? ‘What truth would that be?’ he asked under his breath
Connor tapped his arm ‘Over to the left’
The state highway stretched north and south through dairy farms as far as he could see, with a sround was devoid of children, while three adults stood on the perih a hon of the bee swarm that struck our patient,’ Harry tossed over his shoulder
‘Unless it had found a suitable tree, it wasn’t likely to hang around The kid was lucky to only receive a few stings’
‘More than enough to go into anaphylactic shock’ Harry returned to staring out at the rapidly approaching scene, breathing deep, in and out, slowly, calood enough for the child relying on him to save his life Once the rotors slowed he’d be okay and the dread would recede, but until then he had to wait out this insecurity He’d never worked out where it caht for his mother Now he accepted this aberration as part of who he hen in doctor er as a doctor, helped him to see more clearly the priorities and how to stabilise patients successfully
Whichever, it ilant, sharper, ether, whether it was minutes or hours
Hours On a hill Together Tiht, hersense of ti on him way too rapidly
‘One minute’
Harry stood up, e at the door, his pack at hand, feet planted on the bar used to diseo’
The wheels touched the ground with only a nudge The rotors were already slowing Harry slipped to the grass and bent over low before running across to the round Onein that direction Harry charged after hiy to bees?’ he asked once within earshot
‘No, but we have two children who are so we recognised the symptoms and have the means to administer an antidote One was ad on, but To as we hoped’