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She shook her hand and griht You really do have the body of a PT instructor rather than a doctor No wonder you’re so ridiculously arrogant’

‘Not arrogance,’ Tak hunched his shoulders ‘At least not intentionally It’s just fact No matter how clear I try to be at the start that I’ to lead to e down the line’

‘Well, not this tiuy who has tried to flirt with, bar none She totally shoots them down Nicely but fir to change hera relationship any time in the next lifetime or so’

‘I don’t have to trust you’ Eyeing the clock, Tak began toit Even for you, Little Hemavati’

She swatted hi ‘Only Mama calls me Hemavati Just like she calls you Talank It’s her twisted way of trying to show she’s in control But at least wait and see Effie You never know You ht actually like her She’s focussed and driven—just like you And she’s also pretty stunning’

‘I’ now’

Tak slung his bag onto his back and prepared to head out into the corridor just as the double doors on the other side of Resus banged open and the air ah with their patient The new doctor with them had to be this Effie person

Suddenly he realised he’d seen her once before A couple of ht-year-old head injury patient—Douglas Jacobs, who had taken a tumble down a rocky hillside

‘This is Danny, awo quickly across the resus tea the at approximately twenty-five miles per hour when a car pulled out of a side road in front of him Danny tried to swerve but hit the car and was seen to be thrown about three round with some force’

Tak lowered his bag again, his attention focussed on the new doctor He couldn’t have said what e it

Hetti had been right—although neither of them had realised it Dr Effie Robinson had indeed ilas Jacobs their patient

‘He earing a crash helmet but it shattered on impact Witnesses say he was unconscious for possibly ten seconds On arrival GCS was nine’

There was nothing unusual in any of this Not the patient, not the injuries, not the doctor So as he so transfixed? Watching her colossy hair—a rich, deep red colour—scraped back so severely and twisted so tightly into a bun that itat it?

Last time he’d seen her but hadn’t paid attention He’d been too focussed on his patient But this time it wasn’t his patient And his attention was all on her

Why? Because she had red hair and blue eyes? Unusual, but hardly unique Sowhat?