A Doctor's Redemption by Marion Lennox

Author:Marion Lennox [Lennox, Marion]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472003355
Google: 0aAlAAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00CFX584S
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Goodreads: 18441765
Published: 2012-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

THEY DROVE TO the Ferris wheel, and Reg and Marjory, their new friends from Perth, came along as well.

‘It’ll be a lovely way to finish our holiday,’ Marjory said, still coughing. ‘Riding up and down, looking out over the mountains and the sea. Won’t it, Reg?’

‘I guess,’ Reg said, but Sam looked at him, looked at his colour and stepped in.

‘I reckon you’d be better sitting it out, mate,’ he told him. ‘You look exhausted.’

‘He’s not exhausted,’ Marjory said, indignant. ‘It’s our last excitement. Your little boy looks tired, too, and he’s not giving up.’

Luke did look tired. He’d pushed himself past his limit. Sam and Zoe had had to split up, doing every second ride to keep up with him, but the difference between Luke and Reg was that Luke looked gloriously happy. Reg just looked spent.

But then Sam got distracted. ‘Luke’s not our little boy,’ Zoe was telling Marjory, and Sam heard an unmistakeable note of regret in her voice.

Whoa. Regret?

Family. Was that on her list?

He looked down at Luke and saw he’d tucked his hand into Zoe’s. He was a tired kid at the end of a very long day. He’d go home to his grandma and be faced with all the tensions he’d been facing for months, but for now he was one happy little boy. Zoe was holding him and it felt...it felt...

Okay, it felt like family.

And the faint, insidious questioning became louder.

‘Tickets,’ Zoe said, and he blinked and realised he was staring at nothing. Reg and Marjory were already lining up to get into their gondola and he hadn’t even bought tickets yet.

‘Earth to Sam,’ Zoe said, and he hauled himself together and they went and bought tickets for one last ride.

* * *

It was the end of a glorious day and it was surely okay for a girl to dream.

Zoe had come to the Gold Coast to escape caring. She loved her family to bits, she’d even loved Dean, but they were like the wetsuits Sam wore, keeping the cold at bay but too tight for comfort. She’d been in a cocoon of protection ever since she’d become ill and it was time now to shake it off. In the end she’d had no qualms telling Dean it was over, because she’d realised that all Dean saw in her was someone he could protect. Surely he could use some excitement too, she’d thought, for that was what she wanted. Sizzle.

Sizzle was here, now. The way she was feeling...

She had no business sizzling, she told herself. She had no business sitting on the opposite side of the gondola, looking at Sam Webster, thinking he made her toes curl. Thinking she might even be making his toes curl.

Or was she? Was it her imagination? Wishful thinking?

It wasn’t. The way he’d been looking at her all day...the way he’d reacted when her body had touched his...

She needed to take a cold shower, she told herself. Surely it was her imagination. She needed to calm down.

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