A Very Single Midwife by Fiona McArthur

Author:Fiona McArthur
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-09-24T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

ON HIS return, Bella heard Scott’s footsteps crunching on the gravel before she saw him. He loomed tall above her and his face was very dear and welcome as he stepped into the light.

‘How did you go?’ They said it at the same time and both smiled.

‘I was fine.’ Bella went first. ‘Did you manage to speak to Rohan?’

He nodded as he crouched down beside her to look at her ankle. ‘I had to go a bit further than I’d hoped to find reception, but he should be here in about an hour.’

He studied her face. ‘How’s the pain?’

‘As long as I don’t move my ankle—bearable. Thank you for taking such good care of me, Scott.’ She looked away from his searching gaze.

His voice was gentle. ‘If I hadn’t frightened you, you wouldn’t be in this predicament.’

She felt the blush in her cheeks and kept her head down. ‘I overreacted. And was clumsy.’ She plastered a smile on her face and looked up at him. ‘Let’s not talk about it any more. What did Rohan say?’

‘Lots of things I’m not going to tell you.’ He shook his head with a grin and looked across at the fire. ‘I’d better build this fire up a bit so they can find us, then start collecting water so we can put it out when we go.’

Later, when Rohan’s Range Rover nosed next to the bonnet of the Torana, they could see there were two occupants in the car. Scott scowled when he recognised the young man from Bella’s house.

‘I’ve brought Blake to be the mechanic because it’s his car.’ Rohan raised an eyebrow at Scott. ‘I would have brought a shirt for you if I’d known you’d lost yours.’ Rohan’s eyes twinkled in the glare of the headlights and he ignored the frown on Scott’s face.

He smiled at Bella as she waved from her seat on the tarpaulin. ‘Hi, there, Bella. I’ve brought you some painkillers.’ Rohan came and sat down beside her and handed the tablets over. ‘What was that you were saying today about starting a rumour?’

She ignored her brother-in-law’s question as she swallowed the pills. She wasn’t looking forward to the moving bit to come. ‘Thanks for these and for coming, Rohan.’ She smiled weakly across at Rohan’s companion. ‘You, too, Blake.’

Blake leaned through the driver’s window of the Torana and popped the bonnet before turning back to her. ‘Vivie was beside herself, thought you’d had a crash,’ he said, and grinned as he raised the red bonnet.

Bella shook her head. ‘Poor Vivie. No. I just left the headlights on when we stopped and flattened the battery, then I fell down a rabbit hole.’

‘One of those day’s, eh?’ Blake said with another grin. ‘I’ll leave the medical stuff to these guys and jump-start the car.’ Blake walked around and leaned into the front seat of Rohan’s car and pulled out the jumper leads. Efficiently he connected the two cars and started Rohan’s car then climbed into the Torana and turned the engine over.

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