Her Outback Rescuer by Marion Lennox

Author:Marion Lennox
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-08-27T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

THEY worked on methodically and quietly, hardly speaking, collecting every rock sample Rachel had listed, but this wasn’t the silence of the morning. It wasn’t the silence of a man trapped and a woman angry. This was the silence of two people who knew something momentous had happened and who didn’t know where to take it.

If Amy could, she’d have headed for solitude, where she could give her addled mind time to sort itself out. It needed sorting. She felt as if she’d been hit by an electric charge, fused and then rewired.

She was so aware of Hugo that her mind couldn’t get past him. It was lucky Rachel’s instructions were simple. Just do the job, she told herself.

Do not think about Hugo.

Who was she kidding? Her head wasn’t co-operating. Her head was still filled with sensations she had no hope of controlling. Her body was still filled with the feel of him.

The strength of this man as he’d hauled her from the crevice... The way he’d caught her and held... The look on his face as he’d watched the joey reunited with its mother...

He was a warrior with heart. He was...

Enough! At least he’d put his shirt back on, she thought desperately. A woman would have no hope with it off.

A woman had little hope as it was.

She was holding the bag open while he put samples inside. Their fingers touched and there it was again, a jolt of pure longing.

And he felt it, too. He didn’t have to say. It was in his silence, the way he jerked away when his hands touched hers, the way he kept...not looking at her. This was a two-way deal. Whatever she was feeling, he was feeling, too.

Finally, thankfully, they headed back to the car. They should talk all the way down the valley, she thought. There was so much to wonder at in this magnificent place. So much to talk about?

Instead, they walked side by side and things were left unsaid.

But not unthought. Great big thought bubbles hovered above her head, heavy and grey and so huge she thought Hugo surely must see them.

If he did, he was making no comment.

‘It’s almost time,’ he said brusquely as they reached the car. ‘If we hurry we can reach Uluru before sunset.’

Of course. They’d agreed to meet Maud and Rachel. How could she have forgotten?

Hugo had remembered. Maybe he was feeling this...thing...less than she was. Maybe it was just a boy thing—kiss a girl and move on.

There was another bubble to join the warring mob. She climbed into the car, retreated back into silence and let the bubbles fight it out.

The bubbles were finally pretty much coming down on the side of sense.

Even if he was...feeling something, she decided, this guy was a Thurston. She was an ex-ballet dancer, born of a single mum, devoted to her sister and her dog, and even her dog was a mutt. This man was so far out of her league she might as well aim for.

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