Burning Love by Trish Morey

Author:Trish Morey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tule Publishing
Published: 2017-06-12T04:00:00+00:00

Caleb left the station after his shower, heading for a catch up with Dylan down at the Maylands Hotel, felt the sting of the sun in the sky and instinctively looked up at the hills, thinking of Ava, alone in her little stone cottage perched overlooking the Uriarra Gorge.

Summer was really turning up the heat, with no signs of relenting any time soon. The forecast looked ominous, with talk of catastrophic conditions looming across several areas of Southern Australia, and everyone at the station, it seemed, had one eye permanently checking the range of hills that bordered one side of Adelaide, simultaneously fearing the worst while hoping for the best.

In nineteen eighty-three, two years before Caleb and Dylan had been born, fire had ravaged the Adelaide Hills, in what had become known as the Ash Wednesday bushfire. Twenty-eight people had died that February day. There’d been other fires since then too, Cherryville in 2013 and Sampson Flat in 2015, and they’d caused plenty of grief and loss of property too. But in in the back of everyone’s mind loomed the memories of the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria in 2009 where 173 people had perished, and the fact that since Ash Wednesday, there were more than two thousand new homes built by tree changers wanting to live in the Adelaide Hills amongst the bush that made it such a beautiful place to live, and that it was a disaster waiting to happen.

Because one day, it would burn again.

He chewed his lip, thinking of her up there alone if the worst happened, glad he’d checked the diesel pump the other day but knowing that the sprinkler system he’d had her install and even the little retreat room behind her studio were sensible precautions but by no means silver bullets. When you were faced with monstrous bushfires, nobody was going to give a guarantee, whatever precautions you took. He’d talk to her about her bushfire plan, make sure she was getting right out of there if the forecast predicted catastrophic conditions. He didn’t want her taking any chances. Not with her life.

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