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“I’et back to you with the details Can you ask them to stay on standby?”

“Already done”

“When I get back to the office, there will be no personal tihtinto the chaos of our staff’s lives without proper planning and preparation This would never have happened in the service”

“And you wouldn’t havenow there, either”

Lake’s words cut through Callu of Ed’s last minutes Money sure as hell wasn’t all it was cut out to be

“I need to go,” Callum said

“Stay in touch” The line went dead

Callum tossed the phone onto the bed beside him, pulled the chair over and heaved his body into it He needed a shower

And then he needed to face his team

In a wheelchair and powerless to help them

He wondered what he’d see on their faces when they realised that their boss had turned fro he’d want to see Sometimes, on dark days, he wished the roadside bos He wished it had taken all of him

With a push of the wheels, he headed for the bathroom

Chapter 25

They were lying naked in bed, in the roolanced at before he’d taken Julia It hadn’t been love he didn’t quite understand, but had desperately needed

Julia was lying on her stomach, her face on his chest, her arertips down the smooth, creamy skin of her spine, to the luscious curve of her behind